The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Why ‘Modern Romance’ Is an Oxymoron

Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody in Damsels in Distress That which is romantic is almost always in some sense old-fashioned, but we cannot be old-fashioned if we know nothing of the past, and most young people have no idea what Edmund Burke meant when he lamented that “the age of chivalry is gone.” Maggie’s Notebook […]

Progressivism Is the Ultimate Comb-Over

by Smitty Althouse links the NYT: Shaving your balding head is like breaking up with someone before he or she can break up with you. Or like marching into your boss’s office and saying: “You can’t fire me. I quit.” After all, nothing screams “gradual decline” like thinning or retreating hair. It’s a constant voice […]

Roxanne Doesn’t Have To Turn On The Red Lights. She Does Anyway; Dad Didn’t Teach Her Otherwise

by Smitty No, I don’t mean Roxeanne de Luca specifically. Or prostitution in the Secret Service sense. I mean, emphasis mine: Now, let’s cut through the drivel: play-acting at being married with someone to whom you have not committed will delay that commitment, or finding the person you really want to commit to. Acting like […]

Lena Dunham, Sandra Fluke, Joy McCann

One of them’s got an HBO series called Girls and has been called “The Voice of Her Generation,” because . . . I dunno, because magazine editors need angles for feature stories. Anyway, 26-year-old Lena Dunham says (perhaps unintentionally) revealing things in interviews: If you notice my mincey language, it’s just that I’m still shedding the […]

Profiles in Narcissism: Charles Johnson Blinded by His Own Self-Righteousness

Among the books I most often recommend are The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Thomas Sowell, 1995) and The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (Christopher Lasch, 1979). Thoughtful readers familiar with both books will understand how the phenomenon described by Sowell — liberals […]

Hey, Lefties, It’s Sunday: Are You Finding Joy In Life?

by Smitty Bluegrass Pundit points to CNS News: The more often a person attended religious services, Gallup discovered, the more often they experienced positive emotions and the less often they experienced negative emotions. The less a person attended religious services, the more they experienced negative emotions and the less they experienced positive ones. People who […]

You Will Love Big Brother As Much As Big Brother Loves Loving You

by Smitty Trot over to The Tatler for news about who is adapting “1984”. Hint: this workout will cover some mighty familiar territory for those propaganda mongers. Update: more at Breitbart.

Obama in 1990: America ‘Mean-Spirited’

While a student at Harvard Law School in 1990, Barack Obama was interviewed by the Associated Press in an article the Illinois Daily Herald headlined, “Harvard student tackles racism at core“: America suffered when the movements of the 1960s dissipated, he said. Those movements succeeded in raising doubts about harmful traditions of sexism and racism, […]

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