Detroit ca. 1908. "Packard Model 30 Limousine, Packard Motor Car Company. 'Auto — Alger' on negative; 'R.A.A.' monogram on car door." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing] Russell A. Alger Jr. "was instrumental in persuading the Packard Motor Car Company to move from Ohio to Michigan. He built a palatial Italian Renaissance style estate, "The Moorings," in Grosse…

Hadley Freeman on the Omnicause, the fatberg of activism: Gender, environment, Gaza: they’re all the same, even though LGBT people live under the threat of death in Palestine, and I haven’t heard too much from Hamas about the environment. According to The Omnicause, they’re all magically connected. It’s the fatberg of causes, and the fat…

We've heard how North Korea has recently abandoned all talk of reunification – once a key feature of Great leader Kim Il-Sung's philosophy – and now identifies South Korea as the "principal enemy". The destruction of Pyongyang's famous Arch of Reunification in April was a symbolic confirmation of this new thinking. The latest development: North…

Ca. 1900. "Man and boy fishing with cane pole from shore." American pastoral, with a definite Huck Finn vibe: [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Photographic Company]

From MEMRI TV: Sheikh Dr. Ali Ahmed said in a Friday, June 7, 2024 sermon at the Islamic Center of Connecticut that Muslims should address LGBT subjects from a position of superiority, authority, and confidence, and not from a position of inferiority, because their values are 100% pure and given by Allah. He criticized Muslim…

Sure, I'll bite. In several ways, actually. First, you understand that trans activism seeks to erase "sex" as a definable category right? After all, if any male can simply identify into the female sex simply by saying "I identify as a woman" than "sex" has no real meaning as a… pic.twitter.com/bhLadtMip9 — The Heretical Liberal…

This is almost a companion piece to the speech I posted yesterday from Monika Schwarz-Friesel – another powerful response from a German speaker to the extraordinary explosion of celebration in the West that greeted the Hamas pogrom of October 7th. An open letter from Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller: In most narratives about the war…

In the Times: UN Women has been criticised for saying that women’s rights activists were “falsely” trying to claim that transgender people pose a threat to single-sex spaces. The organisation, which has had advocates including the Duchess of Sussex, had made several statements about gender on Instagram for Pride month. It said there was an…

Well worth watching. Antisemitism researcher Monika Schwarz-Friesel speech on May 3, 2024 at the Austrian Parliament on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. 

The vanishing kiosks of Eastern Europe: In cities across formerly communist Central and Eastern Europe, a distinct type of small modernist architecture is slowly vanishing from the urban landscape. Soviet-era kiosks – tiny, modular booths that served everything from hot dogs to newspapers to currency exchange – were once a ubiquitous sight from Warsaw to…