Conservatives don’t want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type – rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress – and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans – like the earned income tax credit – aren’t thought of as loopholes; they’re just thought of as benefits. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Please don’t begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together. Alex Pareene Read Quote
The song ‘Take This Job and Shove It’ spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites. Alex Pareene Read Quote
In many ways, Tucker Carlson’s a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late Andrew Breitbart, to name two of his contemporaries with a much larger following. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary. Alex Pareene Read Quote
