Of Novels and Novelty Acts
According to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is "virtuosic," "shape shifting," "startlingly new," and it "turns the novel on its head." According to me, it is ...
According to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is "virtuosic," "shape shifting," "startlingly new," and it "turns the novel on its head." According to me, it is ...
It has been quite a month for philandering. One would be mistaken for thinking Senator John Ensign's abrupt resignation was the scandal of the moment. Instead, with news of one illegitimate child and reports of similar ...
Among the thousands of wailing grievance groups the progressive left nurtures, enables, coddles, and waters, "food activists" tend to be among the most humorlessly fascistic. Considering the other contestants, that's ...
Like firing a fetus from a slingshot, feminism catapulted women out of the kitchen and onto the streets, where they were invited to do anything a man can do"but better. This was a blessing for the few women meant to lead a ...
Last week the global media was all abuzz with ridicule over those backward Italian peasants"to the media, a peasant is anyone possessing less than $1 million Euros. It seems those foolishly superstitious peons were relying ...
One of modernity's toxic effects is that words now mean whatever we want them to mean. They cease being a means of communication and become an instrument of power. Lewis Carroll realized this fact: "When I use a ...
Jim Goad, in his comments about the "Fear of an Erudite White," says just about everything I could have said about Jared Taylor and his new book, which I"m still reading with increasing admiration for its author. I ...
While getting drunk last night, I noticed a young man had plonked his sports bottle down on the bar like it was a gun and we were in the Wild West. I asked him what the fuck was up with that, and he explained he"d brought ...
“John Demjanjuk Guilty of Nazi Death Camp Murders,” ran the headline on the BBC. The lede began: “A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death ...
"Bin Laden Wins!" should be the cover headline on TIME magazine this week, rather than the hackneyed, he's-as-bad-as-Hitler cover with the red “X” through his face. Perhaps if America had a reliable source ...
Why would a German playboy-billionaire industrialist with a large family and lots of old and good friends have dinner in Gstaad with one of his closest buddies, then go up to his chalet and put a bullet in his ...
Like a candle in the wind/ Never knowing where to run to/ When the raid came in.... Tra-la-la! So let us join together and sing out loud, for the somewhat perforated body of a sonofabitch has been eased into the deep. ...
Jared Taylor. White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century. New Century Books, 2011. 342 pp. It's hard to find things to hate about Jared Taylor, and that's what his enemies seem to hate about him the most. In a ...
With his order to effect the execution of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs, 40 miles from Islamabad, without asking permission of the government, Barack Obama made a bold and courageous decision. Its success, and the accolades ...