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Comment on Conrad Black as Tubby Tompkins by V.E.G.

V.E.G. — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:55:21 +0000

Little Lulu was created by Marjorie Buell. Also, it has the voice over of Cecil Hildegarde Roy.

Comment on Leszek Kolakowski, RIP by Kellee

Kellee — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:31:28 +0000

Heya just wanted to give you a brief heads up and let you know
a few of the images aren’t loading correctly. I’m not sure why but I think its a linking issue.

I’ve tried it in two different browsers and both show the same results.

Comment on Curses From an Old Manse by z code system

z code system — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:22:33 +0000

Usually I don’t read post on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very compelled me to check out and do it! Your writing style has been surprised me. Thank you, very great post.

Comment on Joseph Epstein: Nostalgia for the Empire and the Closet by Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:24:48 +0000

I have a higher opinion of Epstein’s literary skills than you do, but am happy to hear that the Miller essay is being reprinted. Where can it be found?

Comment on Joseph Epstein: Nostalgia for the Empire and the Closet by JayJonson

JayJonson — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:03:28 +0000

Truly absurd for anyone to consider the odious Joseph Epstein a good writer. He is the master of the cliche. Moreover, his trademark as a writer is condescension and archness. Most tellingly, while expressing contempt for homosexuals and homosexuality, he is notably effete and, indeed, seems very insecure about his sexuality, notwithstanding his failed marriages and multiple children. I am happy that Merle Miller’s beautiful and groundbreaking reply to Epstein’s loathsome essay in Harper’s in 1970 has recently been republished.

Comment on Our Podhoretz Problem at 50 by karl

karl — Sun, 12 May 2013 01:21:50 +0000

hmmmm…..miscegenation……you’d think an intellectual rascist would know better than to go against something that’s been a no-no in most civilised societies through the ages. Yes, “profoundly stupid” does sort of fit.
Well, we cant have everyone digging to deep to find out the reasons why for their pet peeves exist. Down that road lies madness
…Interesting article

Comment on Our Podhoretz Problem at 50 by Joel Bocko

Joel Bocko — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:02:32 +0000

*Oops, a bit of hopping back and forth resulted in some non-sequiturs and repetitions. Meant to write “…or McDonald’s employees; often overlooked is the snobbishness of this attitude”

/fixed

Comment on Our Podhoretz Problem at 50 by Joel Bocko

Joel Bocko — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:00:41 +0000

This is true. An interesting variation on the theme would be the way today (or recently, anyway) many smart kids, marginalized as nerds, are encouraged to envision their bullies as future gas station attendants or McDonald’s employees; in making “liberal” common cause, the snobbishness (not just projecting and implicitly welcoming subordinate economic status on the bullies, but perhaps also tacitly assuming that they often come from, and thus won’t be able to escape from, lower-class backgrounds to begin with). Especially interesting in today’s “liberal” stridently anti-bullying culture (and don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to excuse bullying, and haven’t a clue if it can consistently be tied to any socioeconomic factors, but it’s worth unpacking some of the rhetoric surrounding it). It’s also interesting that the myth is overblown, especially in this economic environment, where a college degree means little: bullies and victims are probably pumping gas together these days. But that’s a topic for another thread, I suppose.

-Joel (a/k/a MovieMan0283; the form used my somewhat archiac WordPress sign-in before)

Comment on Our Podhoretz Problem at 50 by Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:55:01 +0000

Thanks for the interesting comment. Mudrick grew up in the 1920s and 1930s and his memories seem more inherently plausible to me than Podhoretz’s (in part because in my own experience kids pick up on the racial hierarchy of society at a very young age). For Mudrick’s point to stand, the 12 year old Podhoretz wouldn’t need to know that immigration Jews would one day be fully integrated into white society. All he would need to know is that Jews had access to many areas of success that blacks didn’t, that even in the 1930s there were Jewish doctors, dentists, lawyers, etc. and that if he kept to his studies that world would be open to him (in a way that it wouldn’t be for even the most academically successful black kid). I’d submit that any 1930s child who wasn’t a complete dolt was aware of that. And the young Podhoretz, whatever else we can say about him, was no dolt.

Comment on When Conservatives Loved the Palestinians by MovieMan0283

MovieMan0283 — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:36:02 +0000

Fantastic article, which reinforces my belief that someone needs to write an intellectual/ideological history of the American right (or maybe the right in general). I’m sure they’re out there, but they’re hard to find whereas books on the history if the left are a dime a dozen, often written by conservatives too. Whereas the left does not seem very interested in analyzing the genesis/evolution of their opponents’ ideas, and the right wants to conveniently focus on tying its enemies to past beliefs or causes rather than examining its own foundation.