Five Random Kinist Thoughts on Korean Rapprochement
What Kim Il-Sung started with his bellicose invasion of South Korea on June 25th, 1950 has seemingly been concluded by his grandson with a simple step across the 38th parallel’s demarcation line on...
View ArticleThe Kids Are All Blight: Let’s Meet Some of the Up-and-Coming Faces of Alienism
The recently deceased Tom Wolfe once said of his disparaging leftist critics Norman Mailer and John Updike: “the lead dog is the one they always try to bite in the [butt].” Guttersnipes beget...
View Article‘Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish’: How the Post-Historical Era...
Wisdom is not doled out wholesale to any group of people in their 20s and early 30s. I get that. And it is unjust to expect otherwise. Still, it is incumbent upon those who are wanting of wisdom to...
View ArticleGee, I Never Saw This Coming: McDurr & Marinov’s New Campaign Against Patriarchy
There comes a time – not very often, but once or twice in every epoch – when a man emerges upon the scene so bold, so courageous, so full of God’s might that mere others can only stand back and gape...
View ArticleWhen Shrews Attack: The Pathetic Saga of the ‘Debt-Free Virgins Without...
To the uninitiated, becoming an overnight internet sensation can be intimidating indeed. Suddenly one is thrust into the Twitter spotlight for his or her requisite fifteen minutes, polarizing the...
View ArticleOn John McCain and the Misguided Taboo of ‘Not Speaking Ill of the Dead’
I usually find the ubiquity of celebrity death watches on this world wide web of ours morbid, as everyone ought, but there’s no denying that the August 25 passing of one of the denizens of that list –...
View ArticleGood Ol’ Boy, Bad Ol’ Economist: Spare Us Your Lectures on Jobs, Mike Rowe
In his acerbic comedy-of-errors novel Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis wastes no time in heaping contempt upon the book’s namesake – in fact, during the very first description of his capitalist protagonist:...
View ArticleThe Trenches in Perpetuity: The First World War Never Ended
The guns might have fallen silent on November 11th, 1918, but the impetus that set them off in the first place certainly didn’t. But enough of such gloominess. Aren’t centennials fun? Whether it be a...
View ArticleThe Desperation of American Vision in Its Death Throes
Which is the more noble end? Major-General George Pickett’s gallant charge at Gettysburg against Meade’s entrenched Union divisions, under orders from Longstreet, and whose subsequent decimation of...
View ArticleIdolizing the Idyll: The Millennial Right’s Sad Adherence to 1980s Pop Culture
The more severe the societal discomfiture, the more wistful becomes the nostalgia for a more halcyon time, and for all the seeming exoticism therein. As postmodernism established its ugly dominion...
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