Hills are alive with the sound of white supremacy
The story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for …
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Selling the rope to hang them
Legal Insurrection reports from the frontiers of Market Marxism: It’s no secret that the Black Lives Matter movement and its co-founder (and self-identified “Marxist”) Patrisse Cullors has long accused American …
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Much Ado About Gadot
Israeli actress Gal “Wonder Woman” Gadot has been cast in a new movie to play Queen Cleopatra, so predictably, lots of people who know nothing about history are upset. Former …
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Killing them not so softly
The left eventually poisons everything it touches. It might take a while until their presence in a particular field reaches the critical mass sufficient to affect the trajectory but they will …
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BeWitchered
I wish I could have enjoyed “The Witcher” more than I did. For better or worse, all fantasy series and movies will now be compared with “Game of Thrones” (sans …
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The Man in the High Kolkhoz
If you have Netflix (no chill necessary), there is a Polish series available, in fact the first Polish Netflix production ever, called “1983”. Yes, there is an element of play …
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Pussy Galore in the new Bond
The meh news of the day: Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged whether the next 007 should be a woman, or black. …
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Where are the songs of freedom?
A discussion at PJ Media and then Instapundit, about music and the end of the Cold War, which we should be celebrating throughout this year, but we won’t be very …
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Chernobyl versus nuclear power
I don’t know whether it was the intention of the creators of HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series to scare the viewers’ pants off about the nuclear technology (I do know it was …
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The road to the Iron Throne is paved with good intentions
Judging by the social media response, the only people to appreciate tonight’s “Game of Thrones” series finale might be politics and history nerds like myself. Daenerys’s speech to her Dothraki cavalry …
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Westeros So White
The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the Chronicles of Fire and Ice can hardly be criticised for …
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Sully versus Hollywood
Act 1 The scene: “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is a new annual event that aims to connect writers and content creators with activists, non-profits and thinkers with ties to …
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No, “Blade Runner” and “The Running Man” did not predict 2019
I normally rate “The New York Post” as far as tabloids are concerned but this feature on the prophetic side of the 1980s dystopian science-fiction reads more like something out …
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Is it me or is music shit?
It’s day after Australia Day, so Australia’s taxpayer-funded hipster national radio station Triple J has run its Hottest 100 songs of the previous twelve months. They are voted by the …
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What will be the classics of today?
Just the other day I was again browsing at Lifeline Bookfest, the twice-yearly largest charity book sale in the world, which takes place – of all places – in Brisbane, …
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A View from the High Castle
December 1942. The Imperial Japanese Army, having cleared the Allied resistance across Papua New Guinea, invades the Australian mainland. Japanese armies land in Darwin, Cairns and Townsville. There is a …
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Baby It’s Woke Inside
In this week’s chronicles of outrage and offence: “Radio stations around the U.S. and Canada have dropped the 1944 Christmas tune from their lineups over lyrics including, ‘I ought to …
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Should we laugh at evil?
Theodor Ardano had once famously written, “After Auschwitz, no poetry”. One can understand the sentiment even today. But there is poetry. And there is comedy. But not about Auschwitz, of …
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But is it any good?
Paul Tassi at “Forbes” notes an important pop-culture milestone being reached: This week we got a look six years into the future of The Walking Dead, a timeline after the death (well, disappearance) …
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