Monthly Archives: October 2019

The Blessings Of Diversity

October 30, 2019 – 4:44 pm

Heather Mac Donald has an article up at The New Criterion about racial preferences in college admissions, with particular attention to a case making its way to the Supreme Court that cites Harvard’s discrimination against Asians. Ms. Mac Donald argues that current SCOTUS jurisprudence on racial preferences is an incoherent mess, and that when the […]

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Curtis Yarvin On “Bronze Age Mindset” And The Deep Right

October 29, 2019 – 12:05 am

Curtis Yarvin is back again at The American Mind. This time he is offering his own review, pace Michael Anton, of Bronze Age Mindset. (Have you read this book yet?) Yarvin is aflame here. In this essay he argues that what truly drives culture — and downstream from culture, politics — is art: that cultural […]

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The Lynching of Michael Flynn

October 27, 2019 – 3:24 pm

With a hat-tip to the indefatigable “JK”: Michael Flynn’s new attorney, the formidable Sidney Powell, has filed a devastating motion-to-dismiss in the distinguished general’s defense. It lays bare the disgraceful chicanery that the government engaged in to set him up — a sickening and abusive conspiracy, for political ends, by rogue agents in the Justice […]

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Our Unbiased Press

October 25, 2019 – 11:36 am

Last night I noted that the DOJ’s investigation of the Russian-collusion hit-job had become a criminal investigation. The story was originally reported by the New York Times, which still pretends to be a “news” outlet. It is, of course, nothing of the sort. Were the Times in the business of impartial reporting, it would have […]

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Now It’s Our Turn

October 24, 2019 – 9:31 pm

It appears that the DOJ’s investigation of the origins of the Russia hoax has now become a criminal investigation. Thank you, AG Barr. And about bloody time.

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Bronze Age Pervert: Response To Michael Anton

October 22, 2019 – 8:24 pm
This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Michael Anton, Thomas West, and the Founding

A few weeks ago, as I recovered from a bad cold, I posted a review, by Michael Anton, of the book Bronze Age Mindset, by an unknown author writing as “Bronze Age Pervert” (BAP). At the time I said: The book is essentially a Nietzschean manifesto — though it describes itself not as a work […]

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Does Tulsi Gabbard Belong To A Bizarre Hindu Cult?

October 21, 2019 – 3:58 pm

Back in June, after one of the Democratic debates, I mentioned Tulsi Gabbard in generally approving terms. It was the first time I’d ever seen here, and she made a favorable impression on me — especially in comparison to the gibbering lunatics occupying the rest of the stage. A commenter suggested that she had some […]

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William Barr On The Battle Of Religions In America

October 19, 2019 – 9:30 pm

Last week our Attorney General, William Barr, gave a speech at Notre Dame on the assault of “secularism” upon traditional religion. He touched on many of the themes I’ve been brooding over in these pages: the withering effect of the death of the transcendent, the natural-rights principles of the American Founding, and the question of […]

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Amy Wax On Immigration

October 18, 2019 – 8:42 pm

Back in August, the New Yorker ran an interview with Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The interview was, of course, adversarial: Professor Wax, a woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, is an outspoken conservative and defender of traditional Western values and ideas. In this interview […]

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Home Again

October 17, 2019 – 12:26 pm

The lovely Nina and I are “stateside” once more after a two-week visit with our daughter’s young family in Vienna. It was wonderful to see them — in particular, to be with our three-year-old and ten-month-old grandsons Liam and Declan gives us great happiness — but as someone once said, the best part of traveling […]

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Ginger Baker, 1939-2019

October 6, 2019 – 4:50 pm

I note with sadness, if not surprise, the death of drummer Ginger Baker. As celebrity deaths go, this is for me a pretty big one: Ginger Baker was my first drum hero, and a big part of why, about fifty years ago, I took up the instrument myself. Mr. Baker was not, by any account, […]

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Service Notice

October 2, 2019 – 1:49 pm

The lovely Nina and I are on the road again: back to Vienna to visit our daughter and the wee bairns, and to celebrate Nina’s birthday (it’s one of those “big ones”). We’ll back in about two weeks, though I may post a thing or two from abroad. Please feel free to browse our vast […]

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There Is No Climate Emergency.

October 1, 2019 – 11:18 pm

Here.

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If You Can’t Play By The Rules, Just Throw The Board Across The Room

October 1, 2019 – 5:07 pm

With a hat-tip to Bill Vallicella, here’s the latest insanity from the Ministry of Truth: woke math. It’s easy to see why mathematical literacy has to go: numbers don’t lie.

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