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The Disgraceful State of American Higher Education
José Clemente Orozco, The Epic of American Civilization, 1932-1934, Dartmouth University Library. “Academia as a corpse of dead knowledge, birthing intellectually stillborn graduates each year as the...
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This Culture Yearns for Death
Palomo Spain men’s wear at 2017 New York Fashion Week. more examples here. Vogue: [A]s the first look walked out, a man to my right said out loud in pure exhilaration: “Gender! So last season!â€...
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Today’s Students Not Part of Our Common Culture
Patrick Deneen has more bad news from the Academe. My students are know-nothings. They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their...
View ArticleIf You Watch This Video, You’ll Be Sorry
Bill Nye the Science Guy (if anyone were ever tempted to accept this bozo as an authority on “climate change,” just refer them to this) introduces Rachel Bloom who sings (in the intrinsically annoying...
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Not For Republicans
Heat Street: Ever feel like your job in Hollywood or your large trust fund has left you out of touch with the working class in America? Well, now thereâ€s a new way to reconnect with the hoi polloi:...
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The High Life, Silicon Valley-Style
When they are not saving the planet from the rest of us or enforcing the rights of the transgendered, Silicon Valley moguls drop by Hiroshi in Los Altos to dine on gold-topped Wagyu steak. Business...
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The Pussification of Western Man
From James Albert Stringer: Woman #1: I don’t think I have ever met a man who is an extreme Leftie Democrat who isn’t a complete pussy. Why is it that virtually all males whose sentiments lay at that...
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Modernity Killing Western Man
Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982. –Our time’s version of The Raft of the Medusa. Brett Stevens notes that the birthrate of Europeans (and that of the more elite sectors of...
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A New Kenneth Clark Biography and the Subsequent Decline of the West
Remember Kenneth Clark’s magisterial tour d’horizon of Western Art, the thirteen-part Civilization documentary television series that appeared on the BBC in 1969 and in America on PBS in 1970? The New...
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“Goldman Sachs Lobby Art Explains Everything That’s Wrong With Our Elites”
Julie Mehretu, The Mural, 2010, Goldman Sachs, New York. “Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts—the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art....
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The American Character
I was looking through the archives of my blog, looking for a book reference I’d forgotten, when I found this old column from Fred on Everything which demands republishing. Fred Reed looks at what has...
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WSJ Reviewer Eats a $180 Steak Sandwich
Somebody has to try these things for the rest of us. Jason Gay did. I ate a $180 steak sandwich. Not for me; donâ€t be ridiculous. I did it for journalism. Letâ€s dispense with the obvious: A $180...
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“Diversity is our Strength”
Hussein Khavari, murderer of Maria Ladenburger. Mark Steyn addresses the nonsense. This [via a commenter], from Breitbart London and dated 9/11/18, pretty much sums up where the West is at since 9/11:...
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Self-Abolition of Western Man
Malcolm Muggeridge: “So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilisations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of...
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We Are the Barbarians Living in the Ruins of a Superior Civilization
Yale’s Brutalist Art and Architecture Building, designed by Paul Rudolph 1963. “How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in western Europe, when Goth and Frank and...
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I Didn’t Make this Culture, I Just Report on It
Tyler Durdin tells us that looking poor is hip this year, but looking poor can also be expensive. A pre-soiled, distressed pair of Gucci sneakers will set you back $870.
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First World Problems
Tam complains: Bobbi’s working the weird shift this week, which generally means we eat lunch together, but then she goes to bed and I shift for myself for dinner. Having put on pounds again during The...
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Camille Paglia: “The Movement Towards Androgyny Occurs in Late Phases of...
“The movement towards androgyny occurs in late phases of culture, as a civilization is starting to unravel. You can find it again and again and again through history. In the Greek art you could see it...
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Liberal Democracy is Dying
Brett Stevens: We have given in to mundane, socially acceptable evil that we now accept as good, and that starts with individualism/equality, which is the backdoor into the human psyche. All of the...
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Would Hemingway Have Ever Worn Perfume?
Not a bloody chance in Hell. But here, in the Age of the Millennial, there are scrimshankers out there marketing a line of “Hemingway Accoutrements,” including, no less, a 1.7 oz (tiny!) bottle of...
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The Real Problem With America’s Elite
Natalia Dashan brilliantly explains why the Radical Left is winning at elite schools like Yale and everywhere else in the National Establishment. Western elites are not comfortable with their place in...
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Douthat Sees Decadence Without Drama
Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982. –Our time’s version of The Raft of the Medusa. Ross Douthat penned a pretty decadent essay last Sunday, contending that, yes, Virginia! we...
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Five Lessons To Be Learned
M. Brandon Godbey identifies what Americans ought to learn from the COVID-19 national freakout. 1) Incompetent bureaucracy: The CDC and FDA played hot potato with the COVID Crisis for months without...
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Then and Now
Daniel Lee finds in the memory of the historic Dixie Highway a reminder of the old America, the optimistic, enterprizing, Get-Things-Done America, that was so different than today’s endlessly...
View ArticleCompare US Recruiting Videos to a Russian Example
The CIA: Actual quotes from this new CIA recruitment ad: "I am a woman of color" "I am a cisgender millennial" "I have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder" "I am intersectional" I think...
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