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Politics and creativity are not always mutually exclusive. Recently, terms such as “South Park Republicans,” and “Trustafarians” have been coined, and now, Ariel Levy has unveiled, “FCP,” which stands for, “Female Chauvinist Pig.” The peculiarities of this peculiar cultural phenomenon are explored in her new book, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. What exactly is a FCP? She is a woman possessing male sexual proclivities, who has, what can be described most charitably, as alternative cultural values. Often, she is an aficionado of porn, a habitué of strip clubs, or, in the case of one young...

One of the most pertinent questions a man can ask himself is, “What exactly do I want from women?” Once that has been answered, and it should not take long, the next question becomes: “What do women want from me?” That, alas, is far more complicated to discern. The unfortunate reality is that while most men are clueless about what women want, many women also are confused concerning their desires. It’s commonly assumed that women, as a group, desire children and marriage but that simply is not the case anymore. In the last few years attention has been given to...

Christ was a man, Moses was a man, and Mohammed was a man. The conclusion that I draw from this is Thou shalt never apologize for being a man. Independently, and regardless of one’s religious persuasion, I have always found it comical that anyone who believes in a Creator would ever regard our Creator as being afflicted with a lack of foresight whereby he made half of the world’s most dominant creatures fiends and the other half saints. It just does not seem very likely to me that God has spent the last few thousand years looking at human males...

In America today, a powerful case can, and will, be made that heterosexuals all too readily defer to homosexuals regarding claims of oppression or that we suffer some kind of psychological malady due to our refusal to celebrate them to the full extent they desire. Most “straights” seem to silently accept the validity of bogus concepts like “homophobia” which maintains that many of us harbor hate for those who happen to be physically attracted to members of the same sex. I hold that the concept of homophobia is fallacious, and that, in fact, the opposite of homophobia, “heterophobia” is a...

In what has to be one of the most flagrant examples of cultural decline, Newsweek’s current cover story is called “The Secret Lives of Wives” and not only does it degrade the publication’s integrity, it also casts aspersions on a sizable number of married women in the United States. The gist of the expose is that more and more married women are cheating on their husbands than ever before. What makes the piece most offensive is its cheerleader tone. You can almost hear the writers screaming “You go girl!” to one another as they type it out. Frankly, we should...

Amid all the splendid selections of texts and knick-knacks at the Chicago Printers Row Book Fair, I happened to spy three tables and a considerable amount of sidewalk devoted a company or collective called Revolution Books. I immediately went over with pen in hand. It’s a local bookstore that features all kinds of radical trinkets and accessories. You could feel its rebel vibe from a few booths away as the three Caucasian comrades running the booth blared rap music from a jam box one of them had brought. Once I got there, the first thing that caught my attention was...

Barely three weeks, and already I've developed Abu Ghraib fatigue. At first, I was saddened and ashamed by the photographs of abuse. I thought they might cost us the war, and deservedly so. But then I learned the prisoners in cell blocks 1A and 1B are not nice people. They're in prison because the Army thinks they did things like kill our soldiers with roadside bombs. Then I learned that, not infrequently, such interrogation techniques work — they elicit information that allows us to catch plotters and save lives. Then I was struck by the hypocrisy of Arab state leaders...

Whenever people ask me why I don’t listen to talk radio more regularly, I explain that my employers would not classify such behaviors as being “work.” Yet, Wednesday provided me with my first real opportunity to do so as it was the official kickoff of liberal radio. The ideological content of the station made it unique, and perhaps legitimate, as the sounds of Bush bashing coming from my office door would sooth my co-workers and perhaps even increase my popularity among them. Thus, I turned off a classical CD, spun the AM dial to 950, and became an official audience...

I spoke to my friend Robert today and he told me about a Jewish comedian he saw in New York’s East Village last night who had a strictly politically incorrect act. Apparently, he began with a joke about how it was okay for blacks to refer to him as a “Crackah” but not a “Cracker” because the word “Cracker” violated his civil rights. From there he progressed to how much abuse he took for using the word “gay” as a way to describe things that were goofy or foolish. One day it seems a homosexual took issue with his speech....

Bob Dole asked in 1996 where the outrage was, but if we share with the general public a recent article by Andrea Lewis called “A ‘Return’ of the White Patriarchy?”, we may soon be able to find it. The piece itself showcases the same deconstruction techniques that have made the study of the liberal arts at some of our universities a masochistic boondoggle. The trilogy’s plotline stands athwart progressive politics and post-modernism, so we should not be surprised that someone would attempt to vilify it. Tolkien and his work must be defended, however. His tale of grandeur resonates with men...

About eight months ago, a student of mine guiltily asserted in one of his papers that the majority of black Americans live in extreme poverty. I emailed him government Census figures from 2002 revealing that most blacks are not poor and that only 24 percent lived below the poverty line (which is still too many people, of course). Ironically, the poverty rate for white Americans was shown to be slightly lower than that of Asians, but I have yet to witness any students writing essays about "Asian privilege." The fact that this young person was unaware of current living conditions...

Even legendary heroes must sometimes have to suffer vicious reversals. Disaster does not only befall people like you and I. It has, without exception, marred the lives of all men. General Grant had his Cold Harbor, General Lee had Gettysburg, Churchill had Gallipoli, but for you and I, in less heroic circumstances, it could well be ruination by some young, luscious vixen who, by design or accident, succeeded in acquiring the key to all of our endorphin receptors. Maybe you went out with her for a month or maybe you saw her for three years, yet, whatever the duration, your...

Steve Sailer is presently the Film Critic at The American Conservative and contributes regularly to their Arts and Letters section. He is also one of the main reasons why this particular reader subscribed to their magazine as I regard its analysis of social issues to be excellent. Before taking a position with TAC he was previously, and remains to this day, an accomplished journalist. Mr. Sailer has his own website where he has established an archive of essays and columns which one should take the time to peruse. He also writes for vdare.com and is the founder of the Human...

Although I am paid decent money to teach a class once a quarter at a Chicago university, I view my work as an instructor as yielding tremendous secondary benefit because what I observe and experience is invaluable to readers who have no interaction with colleges, universities or students whatsoever. It is with this advantage in mind that I report the occurrences from my latest class. The other day we were set to discuss two chapters from our human development textbook on “Gender” and “Sexuality.” The tone of the text is one of activism. I believe that it actively attempts to...

One of the funniest lines I´ve ever heard at the alternative school where I work, came from one of our inner-city born and bred teachers. When asked if a female student in his class was pregnant he said “No, but the guys are working on it.” A humorous quip but poignantly true. Teen pregnancy at my low-income, inner-city school is not out of the ordinary. It´s part of the infrastructure of our building and always a part of staff conversation. In the American black community, nearly 70% of births are out of wedlock and I´ve witnessed many of them since...

Loving sports was natural for me. When I was four years old I witnessed my first Super Bowl and I've been hooked every since. Being a fan adds immense coloration to your days, and it’s true whether you’re watching classic tapes of Jimmy Connors or the current saga of Bill Parcells coaching another team and accomplishing the impossible one more time. Sport is a respite from the uncertainties of life. In competition, all becomes clear after a few fifteen or twenty minute intervals; whereas, practically nothing else in the world ever is. Bowls, cups, and series provide the closure lacking...

When conservatives identify policies that divide people by race, they become ‘racially divisive.’” National Review, October 27th 2003, electronic issue. Last week I wrote a column about Rush Limbaugh and, within it, I explicitly discussed race in America. I received a firestorm of emails as a result–which I welcomed. Many of the messages were positive, some were negative, and some were hysterically negative. This latter group provided me inspiration to once again make race the focus of another column. It appears that there are legions of politically correct enforcers out there who believe that by expressing their outrage (or mock-outrage)...

Although not a dittohead or even someone who has ever listened to the entire “Rush Limbaugh Show,” I cannot pass up the opportunity to comment on our nation’s latest publicized affirmation of it’s political correctness. The situation proves true Saul Bellow‘s analysis: “We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists.” You see last Sunday I witnessed one such denunciation on ESPN but it was not made by Rush Limbaugh. In fact, another comment turned out to be far more damning than his regarding race, sports, and the media. The offensive speech was made...

“Call you a waitperson?” I asked. What the hell was a waitperson? But that was what a girl told me to refer to her as after I called her a waitress. The year was 1991 and it was my first introduction to the totalitarian phenomenon known as “political correctness” or PC. I had been previously shielded from it, although my friends who graduated from Michigan or Michigan State were already well familiar with its iron requirements. I was lucky to have attended a Jesuit university which, back then, was devoid of a womyn’s studies program or a queer devotional center...

Monday we received guidance from the Supreme Court that discrimination against Caucasian-Americans is a perfectly acceptable practice that will continue perhaps indefinitely. You´d think that in this new century there would no longer be a prurient government interest in subjugating Americans based on race. Meanwhile, we read in the Washington Post about courses in “Whiteness Studies” which exist at thirty of our universities. These courses are an attempt to denigrate white Americans and depict us as being the beneficiaries of a privilege which never in fact existed. The curriculum for whiteness studies alludes to a fictional historical conspiracy to keeps...