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: Censorship
On the Lab Leak Theory
To be clear, I’m more inclined to believe that if COVID leaked from a lab in Wuhan, as now seems increasingly likely, it was an accident and not an intentional release of a bioweapon. However, given their performance thus far, the more the experts and the Democrats and Big Blue Tech rail against, and heap… Continue reading On the Lab Leak Theory
What’s the Matter with New York?
There’s a well-known book, often cited in Progressive circles, called WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? by Thomas Frank that tries to explain why rural folks vote for the GOP, without coming right out and calling them stupid for doing so. I’m simplifying a bit, but the crux of the argument the book makes is that… Continue reading What’s the Matter with New York?
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
“Meet the new boss.. same as the old boss…”
I figure if you came of age in the 60’s (as I did not), you probably have an innate sense of how to stay on the punk rock side of every issue… it’s likely in your blood. For the rest of us, it just comes a little harder. But whereas bands like The Who and… Continue reading “Meet the new boss.. same as the old boss…”
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.