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Category Archives: America
Sporting News: Why didn’t TV networks show angry, booing NFL fans Sunday or Monday?
Sometimes I feel like the whole system is rigged against us. Sporting News: With President Donald Trump’s attacks against protesting NFL players still reverberating, the league’s TV partners decided to air live coverage of the national anthem before Week 3 … Continue reading
Did A Black Lawyer Red-Pill Tucker On Race?
Vincent Law writes: Despite all his protestations to the contrary, the black man insisted that this was a race issue. All the arguments that Tucker made about civic identity were breezily dismissed. Tucker even came close to completely losing his … Continue reading
David Brooks on the “Meritocratic Establishment”
Steve Sailer writes: In the New York Times, David Brooks writes: After World War II the Protestant establishment dominated the high ground of American culture and politics. That establishment eventually failed. It tolerated segregation and sexism, led the nation into … Continue reading
LAT: In Trump’s bully pulpit, it’s us vs. them, with race often used as a device to polarize
Cathleen Decker writes: For much of his time as president, Donald Trump has been the bully in the bully pulpit, castigating targets foreign and domestic. Much of Trump’s bluster attempts to divide people into us-against-them, and it often has a … Continue reading
Trump & The NFL
Comments at Steve Sailer: * What Trump is doing is the only way to fight the Culture War — being unapologetic, up front, in their faces, not cowed by the media. The professional athletes themselves are just cat’s paws of … Continue reading
Portnoy’s Complaint
Philip Roth: “What I’m saying, Doctor, is that I don’t seem to stick my dick up these girls, as much as I stick it up their backgrounds – as though through fucking I will discover America.” In other words, shiksas … Continue reading
Making Sense of the Alt Right by George Hawley
Here are selections from this superb new book: * Given everything that occurred in 2016, most observers can be forgiven for failing to note one additional bizarre moment when, in late August, Clinton experienced one of the weirdest examples of … Continue reading
Why Aren’t NFL Quarterbacks Very Good This Year?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Quarterbacks are taking their cue from the poorly performing President Trump. Quarterbacks need guidance, and President Trump’s weak, wobbly actions have dejected and demoralized the football slingers. President Trump’s cheap stunt of 20 or 30 … Continue reading
From Katy Tur’s New Book – Unbelievable
It’s a good read and a quick read (took me less than two hours to finish). This sounds like it is about Corey Lewandowski: About a week after my July Trump interview, I went for a drink with a senior … Continue reading
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
This TV series was so good that I watched it twice. Then I read the book it was based on — Jeffrey Toobin’s The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson. Toobin writes: * Treating Simpson as … Continue reading