There, the Nazi collaborators won.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
A 43-43 Split
What exactly does it mean when one opposes the notion that the 0.0001 percenters should get baths and jobs?
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Alternate headline: “Half of Voters Prefer Their Occupiers Jobless, Stinky”
Making The Klan Boring
Jonah Goldberg on more whitewashing of “progressive” history:
I’ve long argued that there’s an infuriating tendency among mainstream liberal historians to take two approaches to evils in American history. Sins are always either the result of conservatives doing conservative things or they’re the product of America’s fundamentally bigoted nature. It’s just never, ever, the case that liberalism or progressivism has something to apologize for. Liberalism is never wrong, because essential to the concept of liberalism is the idea that it must always be right. The fact that racism and other evils were commonplace, even central, to much of the progressive project is simply too jarring to contemplate and so we get either a whitewash or blame-shifting. And with Boyle, we get both.
And we’ll continue to as long as people continue to take these people seriously. Meanwhile, here’s the real story of the 20s Klan.
“Uniting In Criticism Of ITAR”
Is the US space industry really doing that? Nope. With a bonus citation of one of my tweets.
Whittaker Chambers
Want to fund a documentary about him? Long overdue, in my opinion. Too many leftists remain unfamiliar with their own odious intellectual (so to speak) history. It’s always nice to force them to confront it.
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Speaking of airbrushing history, the media has already started for Barney Frank.
Do Job Creators Matter?
Jim Manzi’s thoughts on Paul Krugman’s argument with Paul Krugman.
In Which Matthew Yglesias
The Great Global Warming Fizzle
As Bret Stephens notes, it’s hard to kill off a religion — Marxism persists, after all — but this one is losing much of its force.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the climate apocalypse.
The War Between The Useless And The Useful
I think we know who will win in the end, but it’s going to get ugly. The Occumorons are just the beginning. And Glenn Beck was right.
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This seems peripherally related: the Great Jobs Massacre.
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Three reasons that colleges are oversubscribed. It’s been a scam for decades and, like housing, a government subsidized bubble that’s about to pop.
Character
Thoughts on freedom, virtue and religion from Bill Whittle.