MEDIA WHORES: The Courtesans

MEDIA WHORES: COURTESANS AND CHARLATANS OF THE AMERICAN COMMENTARIAT CHAPTER TWO: The Courtesans Cogliendo le rose. Aristotle insists that in the process of rhetorical discourse, it is necessary to define one’s premises. The media brothel exists, of this there can be no doubt, but what defines the whores who inhabit it? For just as not […]

By and large, billionaires are bad

 I was pretty sure Warren Buffet was a wholly-owned Promethean from the moment he talked about not leaving his wealth to his kids. But his reported financial support for BLM seals the deal: The received wisdom, echoing the official mythology around Black Lives Matter Global Network Inc.—co-founded by Garza along with fellow activists Opal Tometi […]

Ding dong, New York is dead

I’d like to believe that New York City is dead forever, but I don’t know if I dare to hope: BUT NYC ALWAYS COMES BACK Yes it does. I lived three blocks from Ground Zero on 9/11. Downtown, where I lived, was destroyed, but it came roaring back within two years. Such sadness and hardship […]

Impossible? Part IV

IV. Brave New WorldTo carry out a successful coup, four things are needed. First, a leader; as one of my professors used to say, would there really have been a Russian Revolution without Lenin? Second, a cause or ideology that will make others rally around him. Third, a polarized and paralyzed political system that will […]

The good guys

I have to admit, I really don’t quite know where to start with the “hurr durr Vox thinks China are the good guys” crowd. Let’s start with observing that the very formulation contains a category error. Nations and governments are not people. Therefore, they do not have friends, only interests. Nations and governments are also […]

Impossible? Part III

III. Into the BreachShould it occur to anyone to start curbing the excesses of feminism in earnest, then obviously the most important step will be to deprive women of the right to vote. In itself, doing so ought not to be too difficult. In most modern countries, feeding in the right computer program and pressing […]

Are you ready to ride again?

A meme warriors notes that Sony is thrashing about in response to the leaks of the SJW-converged The Last of Us II in a manner that may presage The Return of GamerGate:Sony appears hellbent on starting GamerGate 2.0. This wasn’t really a leak; it was clearly data released to do significant damage to the game. […]

Impossible?

Martin van Creveld, the author of Equality: The Impossible Quest, has written a five-part essay on modern feminism and what he sees as its inevitable consequences. I. Introduction Want to know what the strangest thing about modern feminism is? Not the derogatory things many feminists say about other women (“only anxious to inspire love, when […]

The default cycle begins

Which will mark the post-2008 transition from credit disinflation to actual deflation: We didn’t really need any more confirmations. In recent weeks, as the US economy came to a screeching halt because of the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen banks take over $20 billion in reserves  in anticipation of a looming default wave (a five-fold […]

Anonymous is a Red State cuckservative

Never, ever, trust a cuckservative, as the President has now learned: Victoria Coates, an art history Ph.D. who served as an adviser to Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign, has been identified as “Anonymous,” administration sources tell RCP reporter Paul Sperry: A protégé of Bush administration Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Coates embedded with the U.S. military […]