Monthly Archives: April 2021

Appreciating Tom Wolfe (1930-2018)

Carol Iannone writes: Tom Wolfe the novelist arrived as modern fiction was going bankrupt. Modernism, the revolution in the arts that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century, had delivered all it had to deliver, and was … Continue reading

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Why Are Conservatives In Despair?

00:00 Dave Rubin vs Nick Fuentes 01:00 Tom Wolfe on American politics 02:00 Good People Must Be Dangerous People, https://amgreatness.com/2021/04/12/good-people-must-be-dangerous-people/ 12:40 John Mearsheimer & Vishnu Som on “Why Leaders Lie”: Jaipur Literature Festival 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URFBibUMPg 15:40 JM says Trump is … Continue reading

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Tom Wolfe’s Status Update

Michael Lewis writes: Eighteen months! That’s what it took for Wolfe, once he’d found his voice, to go from worrying about whether or not to go on the dole to a cult figure. By early 1965, literary agents are writing … Continue reading

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Want to Hookup?: Sex Differences in Short‑term Mate Attraction Tactics (4-22-21)

00:00 Media rush to judgment on police shooting teen knife girl 04:00 Dennis Prager calls LeBron James a moron 06:40 Heather MacDonald talks to Dennis 12:00 USC’s Song Girls project a glamorous ideal; 10 women describe a different, toxic reality, … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Autobiography from an Abandoned Autobiography

Janet Malcolm writes: Another obstacle in the way of the journalist turned autobiographer is the pose of objectivity into which journalists habitually, almost mechanically, fall when they write. The “I” of journalism is a kind of ultra-reliable narrator and impossibly … Continue reading

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