Get Out, a remarkably racist kill-the-white-people horror movie that makes Django Unchained seem like My Dinner With Andre, is the box office and critical smash of the winter. Made for less than $5 million, this film about vicious whites plotting to enslave blacks by implanting their cunning ...
The ongoing Oroville Dam crisis has received modest national attention, in part because the press hasn"t figured out how to blame it on Trump. Moreover, attributing the surfeit of water to global warming, the only other respectable choice, seems inane. But the history of California water ...
Contemporary white progressives cater to the most regressive tendencies of the various Others. Anybody who can get themselves classified as an official Other-American is today repeatedly encouraged to play the race card, the religion card, or the sex card in the most intellectually crude, bigoted ...
Nobody seems to know exactly how fast France, the cultural heartland of the West over the past millennium, is being demographically transformed. But I have found a way to estimate the percentage of babies being born in France who are of non-European ancestry. And the results are astonishing. Some ...
We"ve heard endless denunciations of the Trump administration's initial minor adjustments to immigration and refugee policy as violating the sacred civil right of foreigners to relocate to America without Americans, you racists, having the slightest say in who and how many immigrants are let ...
Remember the supermarket scene near the end of the Iraq War movie The Hurt Locker? Jeremy Renner plays an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. After countless telephoto shots of IEDs going off terrifyingly close, the sergeant is finally safe at home in America with nothing more stressful to do ...
From his 1989 Wall Street memoir Liar's Poker to his new book, The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis has succeeded his mentor Tom Wolfe as our top Southern center-right nonfiction author. Indeed, Wolfe recently let Lewis read through his old letters to his parents to enable Lewis to write an ...
"God damn Christopher Columbus" were the last words my wife's grandmother spoke before dying at age 88 twenty years ago last week. Nobody has ever conclusively deciphered the meaning of that memorable sentence. Her descendants couldn"t recall her previously expressing ...
A paradox of the current nationalist rebellion is how worldwide it is. Three years ago, I pointed out in Takimag in a column entitled "Nationalism Is a Blast": In 2014, the global winds are blowing in favor of conservative nationalism. One reason it's happening over much of the planet is ...
Will the curse of Oscar front-runnerhood undermine public enjoyment of La La Land? It would be delightful to stumble unwittingly upon this old-fashioned movie musical about a romance between an unemployed actress (Emma Stone) and an underemployed jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) in contemporary Los ...
