Tate Nostalgia, Decolonizing Shakespeare, and Releasing the Oct. 7th Tapes
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Tate Who?
By Auguste Meyrat | Chronicles | March 19th, 2025
Tate hate has returned as Andrew and Tristan Tate inexplicably were allowed to enter the U.S. after having been detained in a Romanian prison on sex trafficking and sexual abuse charges. Predictably, mainstream conservative voices have loudly denounced Andrew Tate and his cartoonish brand of masculinity.
As before, this denunciation means little. Not because Tate’s critics are wrong, but because very few people these days care about Andrew Tate. The only people who seem to care belong to the older set, who have long since made up their mind about the faux macho man.
Meanwhile, the audience of young men who are Tate’s supposed target audience have moved on. Assuming they have heard of him, and many Zoomers have not, they think he’s a nasty (if sometimes amusing) creep….
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Shakespeare’s ‘Decolonizers’ Are Making Much Ado About Nothing
By Auguste Meyrat | The Federalist | March 27th, 2025
It was only a matter of time until William Shakespeare was decolonized. After all, to paraphrase the Bard himself, he doth bestride the narrow literary world like a colossus. He is the cornerstone of English literature and has written plays and poems that today’s ideologues find problematic.
This was the recent assertion of the Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust, an NGO that “owns several buildings in Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, England and a collection of personal documents of the writer’s.” Charged with overseeing the legacy of Shakespeare, the trust has concluded that the genius playwright’s works promote white supremacy along with “racist, sexist and homophobic” narratives.
Consequently, the trust will issue more trigger warnings about the plays, downplay Shakespeare’s significance, and apologize profusely for his excellence. In short order, it will remove Shakespeare from his current pedestal and place him alongside other writers of different cultures, and it will assist Western audiences to “uncover the hidden stories linked to specific objects and re-examine what they can teach [them] about the impact of colonialism on [their] perception of history of the world and the role Shakespeare’s work has played as part of this.”…
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Stop Discrimination Against Religious Schools
By Auguste Meyrat | The American Spectator | March 30th, 2025
By now, it’s become clear that President Trump intends to make school choice the law of the land. He has done all that he could to signal his support for school choice, signing executive orders and pushing the Congress to facilitate a state’s transition to a full school choice system.
However, a new legal challenge has emerged that can potentially slow this momentum and significantly limit just how much choice families are allowed to enjoy when it comes to how they educate their children. According to a report at the CatholicVote, “The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit that centers on the proposed opening of the country’s first Catholic online charter school.”
This case will determine if St. Isidore of Seville Catholic School, an online charter school in Oklahoma, is entitled to government funding. Although the governor, the state’s virtual school board, and likely most residents in the reddest state in the union were fine with allocating public funds to the school, the state’s attorney general Gentner Drummond challenged this on the grounds that it violated the principal of separating church and state. The courts up to this point have ruled in favor of Drummond, thus leaving it to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Oklahoma or any other state can use taxpayer dollars to fund religious schools….
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Release the video of the October 7 massacre, now
By Peter Merkl | The American Thinker } March 19th, 2025
Is there anything more loathsome than watching milk-fed, trust fund, nepo-baby, no common sense, gullible, spoiled, privileged, pampered, preening, $93,417/year tuition and costs, cosplaying, interpretive dancing, vegan, gluten free, nut sensitive, Jew-hating, Jew-harassing, Jew-attacking Ivy League students occupy buildings, assault campus employees, and act out their various neuroses while clashing with police officers? (Here’s the “nut sensitive” context: The Columbia protesters’ makeshift outdoor canteen had readily available sanitizer wipes “with a sign on the bottle urging attendees to ‘keep each other safe and wipe hands after touching NUTS,” along with $12 croissants and a hot sauce stand.)
Yeah, in fact there is. It’s way more loathsome if their faces are covered while protesting because, “they wish not to limit their future prospects, including employment opportunities.” In other words, “Can we hold off on the revolution until my recruiter hears back from McKinsey Consulting?”
These aren’t your 60’s peacenik hippies shoving flowers into the barrels of soldiers’ guns and naively whirl-dancing the South Vietnamese toward the fall of Saigon and communist reeducation camps. These are coldblooded advocates for the destruction of Israel “by any means necessary” who don’t believe the rape and slaughter of October 7th was unjustified.
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“Decolonizing Shakespeare” Part Of Ongoing Assault On Western Civilization
By Katya Sedgwick | Legal Insurrection | March 22nd, 2025
Thankfully, events like this are still a scandal: William Shakespeare’s birthplace Stratford-upon-Avon announced it will decolonize itself, conceding that the Renaissance maverick promotes white supremacy. Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust, the NGO based in the playwright’s hometown where it’s charged with safeguarding his legacy, unveiled a new program aimed to “create a more inclusive museum experience”.
The initiative is based on an investigation launched in 2022:
The research argues that European culture was forced to become the world standard for high art via “colonial inculcation” and that Shakespeare was deployed as a symbol of “British cultural superiority”.
The researchers declared that such a narrative was harmful and urged the trust to stop referring to the playwright as the “greatest” writer and encouraged them to say that he was part of a group of “equal and different” international authors.
The idea that arts and literature have to be decolonized is only tangentially related to actual decolonization or the process by which colonies liberate themselves from former imperial masters. But forsaking the Western classics in the lands that produced them is the agenda pushed mainly by prominent descendants of the formerly colonial subjects to curtail and dismantle the cultural excellence of our civilization. Launched in the 1970’s, it takes place mostly within the European and American institutions….
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The Dragon (Awards) Thunder In!
By Caroline Furlong | Upstream Reviews | March 17th 2025
Time sure does fly. The Dragon Awards are upon us, readers! This year we have some excellent suggestions available for each category. Even the ones I typically struggle to fill are not that difficult to find nominations for this time. It is a true embarrassment of riches – one worthy of a Dragon’s hoard!
But first, a reminder: the Awards are free, with no sign-up charge or fee to pay if you wish to vote. Furthermore, they are meant for fans, and thus they are open to anyone who happens to like the works listed below. All you need to do in order to cast a vote is register at the Dragon Awards’ site and you’re in. It’s as easy as one, two, three.
Also, PLEASE remember that nominees for the Dragons are eligible only if they came out AFTER 7/1/24 and BEFORE 6/30/25. The annual deadline to vote is JULY 19. If you don’t cast your vote before that date, you will need to wait until next year to try again.
Okay, now that we have that out of the way, here are my nominees for the Dragons:
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