Racial Satire: An American Mirror
4,781 words Sometime in the early 2000s, the retail chain Urban Outfitters began selling a board game based on a Hasbro classic, called Ghettopoly. The box cover, made to look like a hoodlum had...
View ArticleThe Second Civil War: Did a 1997 HBO Film Accidentally Presage Today’s America?
2,458 words In 1998, when I was 12 years old, my father and I were watching television one evening when we stumbled upon an HBO made-for-TV movie called The Second Civil War. The film has been largely...
View ArticleGalaxy Quest: From Cargo Cult to Cosplay
5,873 words Galaxy Quest (1999) Director: Dean Parisot Writers: David Howard (story), Robert Gordon, and David Howard (screenplay) Stars: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam...
View ArticleBlast from the Past
1,116 words On a Sunday last May, while Minneapolis burned, my Yankee sweetheart and I indulged in a double helping of nostalgia. The engine that propelled us along this journey down memory lane was...
View ArticleHollywood & the Nazis, Part Four: MGM Arms Deals
Martin Kosleck as Joseph Goebbels in Confessions of a Nazi Spy 3,871 words All installments in this series available here If you have ever watched the History Channel for longer than five minutes, you...
View ArticleIn Defense of Spinal Tap
2,100 words We all know that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But does it follow that when you understand the culture of critique, every Jew looks hostile? Of course not, but, boy,...
View ArticleBread & Chocolate
4,073 words Bread and Chocolate, a 1974 Italian film written and directed by Franco Brusati and starring Nino Manfredi, came when immigration was heating up in America. It reminded me of my own...
View ArticleI Didn’t Even Know He Was Sick
1,433 words Norm Macdonald knew exactly what a modern comic wasn’t supposed to say. He also knew why, in these repressive times, the only remaining funny material is what you’re not supposed to say....
View ArticleCounter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 372 Greg Johnson, Jim Goad, & Thomas...
Norm MacDonald 89 words / 2:01:47 Saturday’s episode of Counter-Currents Radio, in which Greg Johnson was joined by Jim Goad and Thomas Steuben to discuss current events, including the decline of the...
View ArticleDave Chappelle & Anti-Israel Chic
Dave Chappelle 2,804 words One thing I have always admired about the British is that they know when to quit. Just think of all the legendary British bands that broke up at the height of their...
View ArticleThe Slithering Sarah Silverman, Part 1
2,399 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) An edgelord is born . . . It seems like Sarah Silverman has been around forever, and in a way, she has, but she has only been a household name for about 15 years....
View ArticleThe Slithering Sarah Silverman, Part 2
2,787 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Another turn . . . Why am I writing about Sarah Silverman in the first place? It’s because she has rebranded yet again, this time as an “anti-cancel culture”...
View ArticleApologies are Never Funny
Patton Oswalt 3,118 words If, in a not-too-distant future when everything that is currently wrong with American culture has grown worse and I was forced to testify before a Senate Subcommittee...
View ArticleJohn Cleese Did Not Expect the Woke Inquisition
1,460 words Monty Python co-founder John Cleese endured a bit of a career hiccup a few days ago at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas — but this hiccup is indicative of bigger things....
View ArticleOn Racial Humor
Don Rickles 2,428 words The 1970s and 1980s was an odd time for stand-up comedy. During this 20-year period, we saw the rise and glory years of what I would call racial humor. I define racial humor in...
View ArticleVeep: Seinfeld Meets Machiavelli
4,603 words The Vice President of the United States: It’s a lousy job, but someone’s got to do it. So why not cut to the chase and get a lousy person? This was the premise of the comedy series Veep,...
View ArticlePlato’s Theages
8,770 words The following essay on Plato’s Theages is based on a transcript of a taped lecture, which I revised based on notes for two later lectures on the same dialogue that offered a more complete...
View ArticleCleese on Creativity
1,482 words John Cleese of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame is one of the funniest men alive. He’s also fearsomely smart. Beyond that, he has the vision and courage to oppose political correctness,...
View ArticlePap Finn Tonight!
2,204 words Huckleberry Finn’s father is such a towering, terrifying figure of American literature, it’s a wonder no one’s ever built a drama around him. Maybe we should put together a one-man show:...
View ArticleLOLocaust Denial
1,460 words / 9:29 Audio version: To listen in a player, use the one below or click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Well, the Holocaust is...
View ArticleLOLocaust Denial
24 words / 9:33 Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “LOLocaust Denial,” on Roseanne Barr’s recent foray into Holocaust denial. See below....
View ArticleGenius Loci: The Rise and Fall of the Great Comedian Peter Cook
Peter Cook 2,020 words Originality of thought and a command of words give him a maturity of style beyond his years. In speech or essay he is never dull and his work should always be interesting. —...
View ArticleThe Worst Week Yet: September 17-23, 2023
2,511 words Pope Urges Europeans to Bend Over, Grab Their Ankles, and Let the Boat People In Pope Francis is the first pontiff who was born and raised outside of Europe since 741 AD. He helms the...
View ArticleHeil Honey, I’m Home
1,922 words It aired for only one night in 1990 to an audience of merely a few thousand people on a subscription satellite TV channel that no longer exists before being quickly forgotten, but since...
View ArticleA Dystopia for Our Time: Nathan Fielder’s The Curse
3,539 words Nathan Fielder is a Jewish comedian and actor born in Vancouver in 1983. After a false start in the business world, he got his big break in 2007 on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, as a...
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