September 30, 2014 – 11:55 am
The Overton Window never rests. (Or, as Mencius Moldbug put it, Cthulhu always swims left.) The normalization of same-sex marriage is only a few years old — indeed, in some tenebrous corners of the West the process is still underway — but already it’s boringly mainstream. Once the ancient defining and limiting principle has been […]
September 30, 2014 – 9:25 am
Here’s a great post by our man Mangan (and, drilling down through links and quotes, by Bruce Charlton as well) on a deadly disease. I’ve given this thing a name: C.I.V.
September 29, 2014 – 9:52 pm
We’ve been hearing more about Omar J. Gonzales’s romp through the White house the other day. Apparently he got around inside a good deal more than was initially reported; he made his way all the way into the East Room before he was brought down. In the process, as it turns out, he “overpowered” a […]
September 27, 2014 – 11:30 pm
Sorry — not much to say here the past few days. I’ve been distracted, and the muse is silent. Even the biggish stories — the Holder resignation, for example — have left me flat. (I do hope, however, that somebody is backing up that man’s hard-drive.) Also, there’s only so much of this vox clamanti […]
September 24, 2014 – 10:12 pm
With a hat-tip to Bill Vallicella, here’s a “must-read” on the real nature of the enemy we face.
September 24, 2014 – 2:51 pm
At NRO we have an excellent response, by Charles Cooke, to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s egregious illiberality regarding climate heretics. Longish excerpt: Were he to have his way, Kennedy admitted, he would cheer the prosecution of a host of “treasonous” figures — among them a number of unspecified “politicians’; those bêtes noires of the global […]
September 24, 2014 – 12:24 pm
Here’s a video clip that’s been making the rounds: President Obama ‘saluting’ his military honor guards with a disposable coffee cup in his right hand. It has sparked enormous anger among conservatives and patriots. Here’s why. It’s a small thing, I realize — a perfunctory, narcissistic non-salute pales in comparison to the truly grievous harm […]
September 23, 2014 – 10:35 pm
‣ A volcanic blast. ‣ Cyberattacks, worldwide, in real time. ‣ Twitter trends, likewise. ‣ “97%”? Hogwash. ‣ Coming soon to a pizza near you. ‣ The iPhone 6: sexist. ‣ How good are you at recognizing faces? ‣ Fantastic rides. ‣ A disturbing trend in scientific […]
September 22, 2014 – 10:07 pm
We are now active participants in Syria’s civil war. (The poll results must have been irresistible.) I’m sure everything will go as planned.
September 21, 2014 – 9:44 pm
In private correspondence today, I’ve been discussing with an old friend the subject of what practitioners of Chinese martial arts call ‘chi’. It’s a puzzling topic — and so, having no time to write a substantial post tonight, I’m posting a link to something I wrote on this subject about five-and-a-half years ago. You can […]
September 18, 2014 – 10:07 pm
Here’s a report of a remarkable comment from Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg: People seeking clues about how soon the Supreme Court might weigh in on states’ gay marriage bans should pay close attention to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a Minnesota audience Tuesday. Ginsburg […]
September 17, 2014 – 8:48 pm
Tomorrow’s the big vote in Scotland. I’m all for independence. Nick Land has argued, and I think rightly, that because Scotland pulls farther to the Left than the UK as a whole, its separation would immediately snap the rump UK rightward, while at the same time separation from London’s flowing teat would accelerate the failure […]
September 17, 2014 – 3:34 pm
Here’s a piece from Jay Nordlinger on how hard it is to keep up with what we’re allowed to call things from one day to the next. (I’m old enough now that I’m simply refusing to play along anymore.) To find out what this has in common with the geology of the Hawaiian Islands, you’ll […]
September 15, 2014 – 1:36 pm
Speaking of the New York Times: still no mention in our “newspaper of record” about the murder of young, white Brendan Tevlin by a black jihadist. Just a local crime story, I guess. Not fit to print.
September 15, 2014 – 12:01 pm
There’s a fine, gloomy piece by Roger Cohen in the Times today: The Great Unraveling. The fabric of society frayed. Democracy looked quaint or outmoded beside new authoritarianisms. …Nobody connected the dots or read Kipling on life’s few certainties: “The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire / And the […]
September 15, 2014 – 11:15 am
This from Jerry Coyne: If ISIS Is Not Islamic, then the Inquisition Was Not Catholic.
September 14, 2014 – 10:38 pm
This just in: Antarctic sea ice is at its greatest extent ever recorded.
September 13, 2014 – 5:29 pm
can someone give this man an advil? pic.twitter.com/fvwOsoOzV0 — The Friendly Asshole (@FriendlyAssh0le) April 9, 2014
September 12, 2014 – 2:44 pm
In trying to catch up on all the stories we missed during our August break, I’d be remiss not to comment on the malevolent Muslim entity calling itself the Islamic State, and what we should do about it. My view is not, in many respects, a mainstream one. That said, I’ll hasten to align myself […]
September 11, 2014 – 9:25 pm
Among the topics I passed by during our August hiatus was the story about Rotherham, England, in which it was revealed that groups of Muslim men had been using young white girls as sex slaves. This had been going on for many years, over which time there had been at least 1,400 victims, some of […]
September 11, 2014 – 9:16 pm
What’s up with Takimag? The site’s been down all day. It’s worrisome.
September 9, 2014 – 7:08 pm
Today we present a fine piece by Steven Pinker on the state of our elite universities. Pinker’s essay is a response to a New Republic article, by William Deresiewicz, entitled Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League. Pinker, writing with his usual clarity and brio, defends the Ivies, and makes the case for standardized […]
September 8, 2014 – 9:42 am
Over at Outside In, Nick Land offers a neoreactionary’s perspective on the coming ‘exit’ referendum in Scotland. My Scottish mum would have approved.
September 5, 2014 – 10:19 pm
For the first time, a woman has been awarded the coveted Fields Medal, which is generally regarded as the the mathematician’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Her name is Maryam Mirzakhani, and you can read about her here. This is of course a proud day for female mathematicians. Congratulations to Dr. Mirzakhani. Maryam Mirzakhani […]
September 5, 2014 – 9:27 pm
Once again, Vladimir Putin has snaffled the U.S. and her quondam allies: the acceptance by Ukraine of a proffered cease-fire on what, for Russia, are very comfortable terms, will douse any ardor in the West for aggressive confrontation. In last night’s NightWatch bulletin, John McCreary wrote: While NATO plans to fight Russia, Putin’s peace plan […]
September 4, 2014 – 9:38 pm
Here’s a real find: what purports to be the only extant recording of the Sage of Baltimore. It’s a long interview, with good audio quality.
September 4, 2014 – 9:33 pm
We note with sadness the deaths of Joan Rivers and Glenn Cornick. Gather those rosebuds, folks…
September 3, 2014 – 11:47 am
Let’s review the results of our adventure in Libya, for which President Obama and the presumptive Democratic heir, Hillary Clinton, can fairly be assigned complete responsibility. ‣ After a successful, decades-long effort to bring Muammar Qaddafi to heel, and after feting our new North African ally at the highest levels of government, we betrayed […]
September 2, 2014 – 11:18 pm
It’s been a refreshing break, beginning with a splendid mountaintop wedding in New Hampshire back in late July. I don’t often post such things, but here is a shot of your humble correspondent at that happy occasion: After that it was just a lot of this sort of thing: Anyway, that’s done: […]
September 2, 2014 – 1:25 pm
All right, then. August is over. Did I miss anything? Just kidding. Back soon, with a spleenful.