The Fake News Awards

The Fake News Awards

President Donald Trump has announced the winners of his highly anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards. Here are the fakest news stories of 2017: 1. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover. 2. ABC News' Brian…
January 18, 201810 Comments
Devil’s Advocate

Devil’s Advocate

Reader Xavier chimes in to play devil's advocate regarding yesterday's post. Brian.Outstanding post. Let me play devil's advocate. I think the Benedict/St Anthony of the desert option is one of the choices in a multifaceted strategy. We also need the Franciscan one of engaging the world the Dominican at the…
January 10, 20185 Comments
Fifth Columnists

Fifth Columnists

The war to save Western civilization stands at a turning point. For years, the West seemed fated for terminal decline into a dystopia micromanaged by SJW kommissars. #GamerGate, Sad Puppies, and the election of Donald Trump offered hope that the tide was turning against anti-civilizational madness. At this moment, neither…
January 9, 201819 Comments
Case in Point

Case in Point

Pursuant to yesterday's post on the internal contradictions that have left Conservatives powerless to fight the culture war, I present the following tweets: That's author Jon Del Arroz tweeting about National Review Online writer Kevin D. Williamson's response to MAGA 2020 and Beyond from Superversive Press. If Williamson's name rings a bell,…
November 14, 201714 Comments
They’re Daft

They’re Daft

It's encouraging to see that more and more people are catching on to a fact I've done my best to publish far and wide, viz. that so-called Conservatives have no intention of conserving Western culture. Superversive SF blogger Dawn Witzke calls out Conservative media figures who complain ad nauseam about…
November 13, 20175 Comments
The Currentest of Years

The Currentest of Years

Dragon Award loser John Scalzi has come down with writer's block. The cause of the Tor author's affliction? President Donald Trump and the weather: I started Head On in January with the plan to be done in the first half of the year, to leave the rest of the year…
October 3, 201781 Comments
Soft Narcissism

Soft Narcissism

Alex over at Amatopia continues the discussion on conservatism's cultural failures begun by myself and Rawle Nyanzi. Alex's contribution is to go a bit more in-depth about why conservatives abandoned the field to Leftists in the arts. I contend that by abandoning the arts, conservatives created this illusion of being…
September 27, 20174 Comments
Practical to a Fault

Practical to a Fault

Rawle Nyanzi picks up from my previous post on the continued failures of conservatism with his theory on why conservatives have totally abdicated their former dominance in the arts. Mainstream conservatives are too practical, and this is why they ignore the arts. The US conservative ethos can be summed up…
September 26, 201713 Comments
Picking Comics’ Carcass

Picking Comics’ Carcass

The Zman offers an alternate explanation for the SJW infestation of the comic book industry as described by Jon Del Arroz. That came to mind reading this Vox Day post on the comic book industry. According to people who read comics and follow the business, it has been overrun by…
April 14, 20179 Comments
Regency Romance Authors Must Disavow Jane Austen

Regency Romance Authors Must Disavow Jane Austen

First it was cartoon frogs, then milk. Now the New York Times informs us that celebrated British author Jane Austen has become an insidious symbol for the dastardly alt-right. From the article: Nicole M. Wright, an assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado, describes finding a surprising Austen fan…
March 29, 201710 Comments