Category Archives: Politics and Economics

The Oddness of the Current Press Moment 2

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Fenster

Fenster writes: What the hell, another comment on the oddness of the current press moment. Here are Shields and Brooks, interviewed as they are regularly by Judy Woodruff on PBS. Though staking out left field and right field respectively, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics and Economics | Tagged Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour, press criticism, Shields and Brooks | 7 Comments

The Oddness of the Current Press Moment 1

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Fenster

Fenster writes: The small dust-up over whether the French government suppressed evidence of torture and mutilation at Bataclan is a good case study of the oddness of the current press moment. Heat Street ran a piece saying yes: Snopes has … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics and Economics | Tagged American Thinker, Bataclan, press criticism, Snopes Bataclan, Suppression of News, Torture | 8 Comments

Happy 4th of July

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Or, if you’re in a feisty mood, how about this Loyalist defense of the British written by the then-Chief Justice of Massachusetts? Related I shared a list of some of our favorite crimethink-y anti-Narrative books here.

Posted in Politics and Economics | Tagged Brexit, george washington, independence day, Peter Oliver, Revolutionary War | 1 Comment

Brexit Readings

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I’ve been loving following the in-the-wake-of-Brexit debates. Interesting times, to put it mildly. Here are some of the essays, op-eds and articles that I’ve gotten the most out of. Was the EU formed in order to avoid … Continue reading →

Posted in Linkathons, Politics and Economics | Tagged Brexit, Europe, politics | 2 Comments

A Commenter Responds to Obadiah

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Commenter Tom Trueman has responded to Obadiah Plainman’s recent guest appearance here. While you may view Mr. Trueman’s note in the comments section to Mr. Plainman’s post, it is worth a careful read and is therefore reprinted here … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics and Economics | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Brexit, James Traub, Obadiah Plainman, Tom Trueman | Leave a comment

A Guest Blogger Writes on Brexit

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Fenster

Fenster writes: One Obadiah Plainman, who, being of the LOWER ORDERS, hath not access to a blogging platform, a most unenviable state in the current times. He is however a close acquaintance of MR. FENSTER, who as is well known … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics and Economics | Tagged Brexit, European Union, United Kingdom | 4 Comments

A Hypothetical Case Study

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Fenster

Fenster writes: An interesting hypothetical case study. Direct democracy does not scale up well and tyranny is unacceptable so country X has been established as a republic. As a republic, it relies on elites to run things, with the elites … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics and Economics | 5 Comments

The UR Syllabus of Shitlordery

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Browsing my Facebook feed the past few days, I’ve been astonished at the amount of hysterical, sloppy thinking I’ve seen from many of my otherwise smart friends. How you can see a (likely gay) Muslim man shoot up … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Education, Philosophy and Religion, Politics and Economics, Sex | Tagged Bukka White, Charles Bukowski, Charles Ferguson, Charles Portis, Charles Willeford, donald westlake, Edward Abbey, Elmore Leonard, Epictetus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gary Taubes, George MacDonald Fraser, Gore Vidal, Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending, Howlin' Wolf, John Colapinto, John Lee Hooker, John T. Flynn, Joseph McCarthy, Kevin MacDonald, Lead Belly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lonnie Johnson, Mance Lipscomb, Marcus Aurelius, Mencius Moldbug, Michael Oakeshott, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, Nassim Taleb, Nicholas Wade, Oswald Spengler, Otis Rush, Raymond Chandler, Red Pill, seneca, shitlordery, Skip James, Son House, Stanley Rothman, Steven Pinker, T-Bone Walker, Thomas Sowell | 7 Comments

A Generation on a Ledge

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I wrote here about how the pro-faculty American Association of University Professors issued a report critical of the misuses of Title IX. And how Fester found that take to be refreshing and welcome. But also that it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Politics and Economics, Uncategorized | Tagged architecture, higher education, Jonathan R. Cole, microaggessions, NewBostonPost, safe spaces, The Atlantic | 3 Comments

Faces and Noses, con’t.

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I wrote here about Neil Postman’s influential early 90s view that broadcast news was morphing to entertainment. And how that argument–insightful as it was–missed the notion of actual media bias, replete with intention about actual content, that came down … Continue reading →