When reading Sabrina Erdely’s rationale behind her UVA story, one might be struck by how often she said she hunted for the right school, the right situation, and the right victim. This was when she was being lauded by the media for her reporting on fictional rapes on broken glass. In reality, Erdely was looking for the perfect geographic setting and perfect villain to push The Narrative. Erdely did not have to search hard or look far to find rape, a culture that protects criminals, and systemic protection for criminals from petty theft to rape. This storm of factors is found […]

Ideologues enjoy using the nebulous concept of ‘capitalism’ either as a punching bag or as something to laud, but most prefer to stay away from the method of calculation that underlies it, giving it its own logic as to why it functions. That system is the international accounting system — which is not something that is evenly distributed throughout the economy. Accounting is a way of rationalizing production using tokens of value combined with scrupulous record-keeping. It has less to do with enormous factories and more to do with the mathematically rationalized operations of those factories. Much of the political agitation […]

At the outset of this review of Mad Max: Fury Road, let me say that it’s an excellent movie. If for some reason you are haven’t seen it, stop reading this instant and go watch it. Not only will you have a thoroughly enjoyable viewing experience, you’ll avoid all the spoilers that follow here. I’ll wait. Now you’ve seen the movie. Aside from exulting in the experience, you’re probably wondering: just what was supposed to be feminist about that film? I can’t answer that question, but I do know that it poses very serious problems for those of us of the […]

The Rachel Dolezal news media cycle was fantastic to watch. It was beautiful to see progressives struggling to reconcile the problem of glorifying Bruce Jenner’s transition from man to woman, while somehow not glorifying Dolezal’s transracial attempt. There are problems. The NY Times op-ed (by a woman), which pushes back against Jenner’s move, reveals the torture the left is going through as they say “gender/race is biological but doesn’t have to be but hey why are you claiming to be part of my group and take on my struggle and claim my oppression.” The coalition of victims is defensive about their identities […]

One of the critiques I have seen in the past few months comes from the concerned conservative or libertarian observer and goes something like this: “Reactionaries are no different from liberals, because they support social engineering. They want to forcibly change how people think, while conservatives just want people to be free from big government.” Well, the first thing to be said here is that the conservative is essentially jacking a libertarian argument for his own uses. Conservatism, as I have pointed out previously, is not the same thing as libertarianism and instead can be likened to liberalism’s shadow, preserving its […]

White supremacy, within living memory, was once a central plank of the progressive platform. While this might be a little hard to believe now, it’s important to understand the context of the white supremacist ideology as it developed after the Civil War. The Rockefeller fortune in particular was instrumental to the founding of the historically black colleges — along with some of the other moguls of the gilded age. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African-Americans were almost entirely confined to the Southern regions of the United States. There was no ‘national’ race problems, although there were countless controversies […]

Tyrant. The word definitely has a negative connotation these days. “Sic semper tyranniis” is what you say after you’ve killed one. The evil Count Dooku was also known as Darth Tyrannus. Nobody wants to be a tyrant—“king,” quite possibly, and you might even be able to talk them into “dictator,” but not tyrant. This was not always so. Solon, the Athenian lawgiver, protested that he did not wish to become a tyrant, despite all the wealth and prestige that accrued to one with such a title. Alcaeus the Lesbian also decried tyranny, as did Herodotus the historian, though they never […]

What do our elites have cooked up next for us, socially? With the victory of gay marriage, elites have wasted no time pushing ‘trans’ on the public. It’s much more difficult to pull off, mostly because of feminist pushback and the idea of ‘transracialism,’ which further exposes tensions inherent in transgenderism as a concept. The media has also spent the last year promoting still weirder stuff as Weimerica reaches new heights for insane tolerance drives. Those are far harder sells. The next frontier will be the further destruction of marriage as being between one man and one woman. It is a cliche (but completely true) […]