From my new movie review in Taki's Magazine: Keeping Up With ‘Mr. Jones’ Steve Sailer July 29, 2020 In the biopic Mr. Jones, the insidious Peter Sarsgaard plays Walter Duranty, the sinister...
In Oblivion, a pretty good 2013 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie that preceded Cruise's 2014 hard sci-fi peak in the Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (Groundhog Day mashed with Starship Troopers), Tom Cruise...
From my new review in Taki’s Magazine:
âHamiltonâ: The Obama Administration on Stage
Steve Sailer
July 08, 2020
Before I finally watched Hamilton, Lin-Manuel...
Trump wants to build in D.C. an outdoor statue garden, one that would presumably be a regular tourist stop, along with the Lincoln Memorial and the like. So far, the White House says:
âThe...
From The Telegraph: Two previous eras of black supremacist ideology -- the late 1960s and the early 1990s -- both came a-cropper when they got too many Jews peeved at black anti-Semitism. For example,...
Comedy giant (e.g., The Dick Van Dyke Show) Carl Reiner is dead at 98. Unfortunately, this clip ends before Carl Reiner's funniest moment in Ocean's Twelve: which is when the Bruce Willis, playing movie...
From my Taki’s Magazine column last summer:
1619: Founding Fallacies
August 21, 2019
Last week, Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, informed his staffers...
From The Economist:
Would most covid-19 victims have died soon, without the virus?
A new study suggests not
May 2nd 2020 edition
… However, a study by researchers from a group of Scottish...
From my new review of the TV show Occupied in Taki’s Magazine:
âOccupiedâ: Homeland of Glass
April 22, 2020
One of the more interesting television...
Here’s today’s much-awaited PDF preprint (not peer reviewed) by a Stanford team that performed blood antibody tests on a fairly representative sample of 3,330 Santa Clara County residents on...
A preprint from China:
Indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Hua Qian, Te Miao, Li LIU, Xiaohong Zheng, Danting Luo, Yuguo Li
This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed
… It...
A commenter provides an overview of the news:
Dear Steve,
What follows are the opinions of one observer â a non-clinician, at that â about the pandemic weâre...
From the New York Times:
The Mission to Hunt Nazis Has Become a Race Against Time
The latest target was a 94-year-old man in Tennessee said to have been a guard at a concentration camp in Germany....
I reviewed Steven Soderbergh's feature film Contagion back in 2011. The first half is pretty exciting. I don't remember the exact plot other than, spoiler alert, It Was All Gwyneth Paltrow's Fault. But...
From Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences:
The effect of public health measures on the 1918 influenza pandemic in U.S. cities
Martin C. J. Bootsma and Neil M. Ferguson
PNAS May 1, 2007 104...
Economist Robin Hanson has a post on how people tend not to notice or care about plot holes in their beloved works of fiction. For example, as I would suggest, people who like Parasite director Bong's...
From the New York Times opinion page: Could be worse ... I bet Mr. Chaw has a few unproduced autobiographical screenplays in his desk drawer about growing up Asian-American while not being Bruce Lee, and...
An upcoming movie about a good journalist (James Norton as Gareth Jones, who broke the story of Stalin's Ukraine famine) and a bad journalist (Peter Sarsgaard as Walter Duranty, who won the Pulitzer Prize...
From the New York Times movie section: Stop Blaming History for Your All-White, All-Male Movie Movies like “1917,” “The Irishman,” and “Ford v Ferrari” have all used...
From the New York Times: Plus, "Little Women," which was ho-hum. Because you are gay? The Academy Awards are like the Big Gay Super Bowl, so they've finally taken my advice and rather than schedule them...
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