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Liberal Democracy’s Minimalist View of Humanity Leads Directly to Unlimited...
Ryszard Lugutko, Professor of philosophy at the Jagellonian University in Cracow. From The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies by Ryszard Legutko. Liberal and democratic...
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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!” What...
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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...
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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 there’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; don’t be ridiculous. I did it for journalism. Let’s dispense with the obvious: A $180 steak...
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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 training...
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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 Norman...
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