What things make us laugh? In all times and places the top draws have been sex, class, and race. The precise way these major themes tickle our funnybones varies with social trends, reflecting back to us the way we live now. This entirely unoriginal observation was prompted by watching ...
That puts "racist" up there with "and" and ...
Reading Steven Goldberg's Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences the other day, I got to his 1998 essay on the Clinton scandals. Steve starts off with an Oscar Wilde quote: I have never come across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid ...
I don't think you have a healthy society if it doesn't include some rebellion against bourgeois ...
I"ve been observing the onward march of Cultural Marxism for a whole quarter-century now, and been writing about it for a dozen or so years. It seems to me the pace of hysteria has been picking up since the start of this decade. Outrageous violations of CultMarx norms that got all the Great and ...
I don't see how you could want any more conclusive evidence that U.S. immigration policy is just a farm system for future Democratic ...
We live, as I have noted before, in a beggars" democracy: This refers to the more relaxed sort of despotism in which the lower orders"the beggars"are permitted some modest freedoms of expression, so long as they do not challenge the basic assumptions of the state ...
The Republic still stands, in spite of the best efforts of our politicians, and wealthy Hollywood airheads can still strike poses as champions of the ...
Here's a clip from my read-it-and-weep folder. It showed up in a February 11th Washington Post article, headline: "College sexual assault prevention has unlikely model: U.S. service academies." Midshipmen"that is, trainee officers"at the U.S. Naval Academy are being broken to ...
So it seems to me that if the Europeans had a sense of fairness and their own interests, they'd be encouraging their Muslims to leave and their Jews to ...
