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Decadence and Statism
Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982. –Our time’s version of The Raft of the Medusa. Charles Hill identifies our time, the age of Decadence, as the period of time lying between...
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The Worst of It
The worst thing about living under liberals isn’t the deliberate erosion of the Constitution, the disastrous nationalization of medical insurance, the ever-shrinking percentage of Americans in the...
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What Will Happen Next?
Anonymous tourists in Simferopol Kevin Drum, writing from the perspective of the Left in Mother Jones, predicts the US response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: Republicans will demand that we...
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The Current Crisis
Paul Delvaux, City Worried, 1941, Private Collection. “Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has previously been...
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Some People’s Delusions are Allegedly a Civil Right
That whirring sounds you hear faintly in the background are Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, both Y’1920, the founders of Time Magazine, spinning in their graves as Nancy Gibbs, Y’1982, Time’s current...
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Perhaps Not Complete Untergang
Thomas Babbington Macauley: “[The Roman Catholic Church] saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance...
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American Culture
Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982. –Our time’s version of The Raft of the Medusa. Fred Reed is not impressed with what egalitarian progressive modernism has wrought. The...
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Latest Hipster Atrocity: Artisanal Ice
The Washington City Paper notes another watershed mark of decadent hipster self-indulgence. A Manhattan will set you back $14 at forthcoming downtown restaurant and bar Second State. Want it on the...
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Lab Mouse Experiment Leads to Dystopia
io9 describes a 1972 experiment which demonstrated that urbanization, increased population density, led to dystopian decadence and inequality featuring exactly the same kind of urban community of...
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“Liberalism Fills the Missing Space Once Inhabited By Religion and the Family”
Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982. –Our time’s version of The Raft of the Medusa. And Dan Greenfield argues that it really does not do a terribly good job. Liberalism has...
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Sentimental Nihilism
Kit Wilson identifies the leading cultural disease of modern times. We seek to make society blinkered, mindless and immature. Look at the way today’s businesses choose to market themselves. They...
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“Notes on the Death of Culture”
Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982. –Our time’s version of The Raft of the Medusa. John D. Davidson reviews Mario Vargas Llosa’s just-released Notes on the Death of Culture, a...
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The Modern Man Fisked
Via Karen L. Myers and Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, a NYT column defining “The Modern Man” with replies in red ink.
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San Francisco’s History and its Disastrous Impact on American Politics and...
Michael Anton, in the current Claremont Review of Books, has an absolutely brilliant, must-read article which identifies the peculiar historical relationship between San Francisco’s Barbary Coast...
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“The Age of Trump”
Eliot A. Cohen, in the American Interest, points out that Donald Trump is not the solution to America’s problems, he is really the most alarming symptom of the disease. Politicians have, since ancient...
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2016 Election Not Important
Gustave Doré, A Traveller from New Zealand Contemplating the Ruins of London. “[W]hen some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London...
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Diagnosing Decadence
Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982. –Our time’s version of The Raft of the Medusa. Dan Greenfield contrasts the barbarous, vigorous, and decadent stages of civilization in...
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Contemplating The Trump Phenomenon
Charles R. Kessler does not agree with NeverTrumpers like myself, but he does accurately perceive Trump’s flaws and has interesting thoughts about the rise of Trump in his current essay in Claremont...
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