One of my first essays dealt with the rise of book burning on the Left. In that essay I argued that modern book burning is not just about books, it’s about content of all kinds, as we’ve seen with the recent controversy over Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special. To illustrate the point a year ago,… Continue reading George Was Right #4387
Category: Cancel Culture
The Library of Cancelled Films (June 18, 2021 Edition)
UPDATE: SCHLICHTER-LANCHE!!! Welcome to all you fans of the Colonel… ain’t he the best? Before we get into George’s two additions to the library, take a minute to go back and read the orignal Library of Cancelled Films post to get an idea of what we’re doing here and why…. OK, are you back? Let’s… Continue reading The Library of Cancelled Films (June 18, 2021 Edition)
I just had a wild thought…
What if the strange prudishness and over-the-top political correctness that we see in teenagers these days is actually an evolutionary survival strategy desgined to protect them in an era of ubiquitous video cameras, social media and a ruthless Cancel Culture? I’ve posed this concept to a few people whose opinions on childhood development I respect,… Continue reading I just had a wild thought…
Read another book!
You know how everyone on the Left is always comparing everything to HARRY POTTER, because it’s the only book they’ve read that wasn’t written by Karl Marx? Sure, you know how it goes… all the big names in the GOP from W to Romney to McConnell and Trump are “literally Voldemort!” And Dolores Umbrage is… Continue reading Read another book!
The culture fight at the “OK” Corral
I keep hearing that we can’t make the “OK” symbol anymore because “the symbol has been co-opted by White Supremacists…” Wait wait wait… “has been co-opted”?! No… no absolutely not. Why do they get to “co-opt” something from the rest of us? And don’t you dare use the passive voice like that… it hasn’t “been… Continue reading The culture fight at the “OK” Corral
The eerie prescience of Bluto Blutarsky’s sweatshirt…
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Here’s a column from an older version of The Congress that still holds up well… in fact, it describes a situation that has only gotten worse. (PS: tune in tomorrow for another edition of THE SATURDAY NIGHT STORY) Ah College… Those heady days when you spent your time practicing the finer points of… Continue reading The eerie prescience of Bluto Blutarsky’s sweatshirt…
Escaping a Rigged System
Angelo Codevilla has an essential piece today on the necessity of a new American Exodus from the vast emerging commercial and governmental system of Elites that is increasingly contrary to the idea of republican self-government. The essential argument is that things have gone too far and it is far too late for us to “vote… Continue reading Escaping a Rigged System
Liberty-minded marketplaces
I believe that to insulate ourselves against Cancel Culture we must start building our own independent systems that Big Tech can’t shut down. So when Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, announced he was starting a Liberty-Minded Marketplace with his wife Helen, I signed up immediately. You can buy my first novel via Helen’s Page here.
Cancelling the Cancel Culture economy
I’ve always been a huge history buff, and especially the history of the war in Viet Nam. Partly because of that interest, and partly because I just wanted to see a part of the world that wasn’t Europe, I traveled to Viet Nam back in 2000. Most of the sites we visited were done as… Continue reading Cancelling the Cancel Culture economy
Cancel Doctor Seuss?
Well… you can have my kids’ copy of THE GRINCH when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.