The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Although this essay discusses politics in France, the observations and analyses can be applied to most Western nations. Useful Shadows. Maybe creating the “Extreme Right”was a bad idea. Aurelien I don’t know what ideas Festival of Humanity would conjure up in the mind of the average Anglo-Saxon. Happy-clappy guitars, perhaps, peace and love? Desmond Tutu and Ursula von der Leyen? In fact, it’s all to do with a newspaper. L’Humanité was founded by the great French Socialist Jean Jaurès, and was the Party’s official newspaper until 1920, when after the Congress of Tours, the departing Communist faction took it with them. From then until reality dictated otherwise in 1994, it was the official newspaper of the PCF, and since then, it’s clung on as an all-purpose leftist publication. A tradition for almost a hundred years, is the annual Festival, largely based around music, taking advantage of the fact that popular French musicians have often had leftist sympathies. I haven’t been the...

  Woke 1.0 and Presuming 2.0 A retrospective and assessment William Hunter Duncan This post was inspired by Drunk Wisconsin , who wrote a post about woke 1 recently , which I challenged him a bit about, which he was a good sport about, seems like a guy who would be fun to have a beer with, I like to drink, we need all the allies we can get and I live next door in Minnesota. I graduated high school in 91’, went to a state college on a small baseball scholarship, grew disillusioned with baseball and Higher Ed, quit and went back twice, finally graduated with something like a 3.8gpa, my last two years. Most of my professors, my last year, encouraged me to pursue a doctorate. In hindsight I would have made a fine college professor, but more like I would have accumulated a couple hundred thousands dollars of debt and then not have become a professor, or drummed out of the university by early woke, if I had become a prof. I went to a student government meeting once. An entire hour was t...