Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Why Progressives Undermine Civilization

Shellenberger seems to be getting a bit neoconnish. Next up: “Michael Shellenberger on the visionary genius of Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol.” From electricity and psychiatry to criminal justice and meritocracy, center-Left political leaders are dismantling the institutions our forefathers created. Why is that? Michael Shellenberger German Economy […]

Face It You’ll Believe Anything

Banned Hipster Before TikTok they had Daytime TV. The most infamous and self-referential – really Hollywood “Generation X” shit – the most hipster of them all was Jerry Springer. These shows had always staged fights, and some were likely real – Al Sharpton and Roy Inness were really […]

The Racism in Textbooks

New York Review of Books Eric Foner The Complicity of the Textbooks In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past. Dan Chiasson Rococo Risks With Venice, her latest collection of poems, Ange Mlinko offers an […]

Fired for Being White? Judge Says Starbucks Ex-Manager Made Case for Reverse Discrimination

By Charles Toutant “From this evidence, a jury could find pretext because this testimony directly contradicts the reason given by defendant for plaintiff’s termination. Additionally, Starbucks’ lack of documentation is further evidence of pretext,” Slomsky said. A federal judge ruled that a former Starbucks regional manager made a […]