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Periodically, I like to reread Dorothy Thompson’s 1941 Harper’s article “Who Goes Nazi?” I found myself thinking about this essay again recently and it remains as good an article as ever.
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He Can’t Take It With Him, After All
Image by thecomeupshow Last March, I advised you all about the release of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the literal one-off album by the surviving members of critically acclaimed hip-hop collective...
View ArticleFargo S2 Finale Open Thread
(Commenters, please use the “spoil” button/function, on a per-paragraph basis, to prevent spoilers from showing up on the front-page). Whew. Thus ends what is probably one of my favorite seasons of TV...
View ArticleTraveling with Children
Tonight, I take an 11PM flight to Mexico City and then on to Morelia, my wife’s hometown. Although I have traveled a great deal in the past, this is the first time I am traveling with my one year old...
View ArticleGets My Vote for Best Polit-Junkie Think-Piece of 2015
This @baseballcrank piece on Trump, OODA loops, and the GOP primary race is clever, fun, and awesome: https://t.co/jE7xTqzoxO — Reihan Salam (@reihan) December 16, 2015 Ironically enough, this...
View ArticleA common tragedy
Given how many books he has written complimentary blurbs for, it is not surprising that Malcolm Gladwell reads a lot. Judged solely by what he thinks the tragedy of the commons is, however, he does not...
View ArticleTalk to me like I’m stupid
I have gone through nearly my entire life with absolutely no impression one way or the other about Dunkin’ Donuts. Until recently, I had never set foot in one, not because of any negative opinion but...
View ArticleWhoa.
This could change everything – if this eagle-eyed YouTuber is correct about this possible Easter egg, I now want to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens so bad that I can TASTE it (spoilers at link,...
View ArticleFandom Über Alles
Writing in Salon, after receiving poison pen letters for his warmish review of Star Wars: Über Alles, Andrew O’Hehir notes something that I’ve long found weird about the dynamics of fandom: Why is it...
View ArticleTrumpism and Hypermasculinity
Dan Bilzerian is a very rich man because his father was a rich man. In today’s social media world, he turned himself into a C-list celebrity by posting pictures of himself on the Internet doing manly...
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The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles, 12/2015: More Help Wanted
(The Montauk Catamaran Company Chronicles is an ongoing series of posts detailing the construction of Mon Tiki Largo, a James Wharram Designs Pahi 63 MkII. The author’s current boat is the catamaran...
View ArticleTexas Gov. Gets History Wrong in Opposing a Monument
You can check out the display in the Patheos article. I don’t find it offensive at all. But then again, I like satire, parody, iconoclasm, South Park among other things. But the Governor claims “it...
View ArticleCracks in the Liberal Order
Now: Trump will not be the Republican nominee (yes, really). Bernie Sanders won’t beat Hillary. Far-left antics at Amherst and Oberlin and Claremont McKenna and Yale are not as significant as elite...
View ArticleSongza, I’m Gonna Miss You
I hate to be the one to tell you, but if you don’t use Songza — and at only 6 million users, chances are you don’t — I have two pieces of bad news: first, you’ve been missing out on a great streaming...
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Farewell, Warrior on the Edge of Time
Lemmy Kilmister has died at 70 of cancer. If death can happen to him, it can happen to anyone.
View ArticleStar Collage Wars
I came across this little ditty online the other day and thought that it might appeal to our Star Wars hungry commentariat. It is a shot for shot pre… Well, I am not sure what to call it. It is clips...
View ArticleDavid Frum: Will the Republican Party Survive the 2016 Election?
There are metrics, after all, by which the post-2009 GOP appears to be a supremely successful political party. Recently, Rory Cooper, of the communications firm Purple Strategies, tallied a net gain to...
View ArticleWilliam Voegeli: The Reason I’m Anti-Anti-Trump
The Trump insurrection is, like the Tea Party, a Jacksonian rebuke in the spirit of William Buckley’s famous preference to be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory over...
View ArticleThe Question of Natural Religion and Syncretism Part I
The idea of syncretism is often derided as some fuzzy New Age concept that blurs the lines between and among authentic religions. Hence the charge that those syncretic systems are inauthentic. When I...
View ArticleWhat If…?
Seriously, what would the response be if the 100-150 heavily armed militia members who took control of a government building were Black? Or Muslim? How would the government respond? Law enforcement?...
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