Yes, Throw the Celebrity Clowns Away
Regular readers will know that one of the most unfair and purist things I do on this blog is to quote people like John Oliver and Jon Stewart accurately when they say transparently power-serving...
View ArticleOn Russia, Today’s Liberal Luminaries Take Their Cues From Fascists
It’s unlikely that most American news consumers have ever heard of Ukrainian nationalist groups like the OUN-B, but these days, ideas espoused by these groups will have a familiar ring to New York...
View ArticleAnthony Bourdain’s State Department Smorgasbord
Anthony Bourdain’s suicide in June 2018 will cement his reputation as a progressive celebrity with a unique acumen for explaining the world to his fans. CNN’s obituary says that the most common...
View ArticleThis Bourdain Thing is the Spawn of Obamania and #JeSuisCharlie
I said everything I need to say about Anthony Bourdain’s career as an American chauvinist and NATO propagandist already, but his canonization as a secular saint for credulous lefties is its own beast...
View ArticleA Brief History of American Vigilantism
A group of industrialists finance a group of gangsters to break trade unionism, to check the threat of socialism, the menace of socialism or the possibility of democracy. —Orson Welles People who read...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part I
Noam Chomsky recently took to the pages of The Intercept to give his blessing to the US military’s occupation of Syria, solidifying his support for the Pentagon after years of having done so in...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part II
Read Part I here America’s Greatest Dissident All of this is crucial context because Chomsky’s defenders compare him favorably to Fox News cretins and State Department snakes. But this is not a useful...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part III
Read Part I here and Part II here The Left gets Hoped and Changed One of the more insidious aspects of contemporary American mass culture is how it is celebrated as something so progressive at a time...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky and the Compatible Left, Part IV
Read Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here The Professor Becomes What He Always Was Most of Chomsky’s shortcomings have been present from the beginning. He has long had the tendency to issue...
View ArticleThe Deep Politics of Jared Leto’s Cult
…Pop singer—he’s not so much a person as a puppet, whose strings are pulled for a scheme of total nightmare! …A terrifying and withering exposé of the misuse of power in an age of illusion! —Privilege...
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