Tag Archives: William F. Buckley

muggeridge…punch for compass

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Dave

Its always fascinating how people can make surprising unexpected transformations in their lives that leave one reaching for a guide for the perplexed. A classic case was Malcolm Muggeridge the fiesty agnostic editor of Punch, the irreverent British magazine, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Christopher Hitchens, Evelyn Waugh, Gregory Wolfe, Gresham's Law, Hamish Hamilton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm Muggeridge, Peter Hitchens, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William F. Buckley | Leave a comment

skull and no bones about it

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is a cover for a paranoid little book about the super secret fraternity associated with YALE university called “the order of skull & bones.” that jolly roger (with the mystical secret number ’322′ under it) in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aleister Crowley, Antony C. Sutton, art chantry, Austan Goolsbee, Averill Harriman, Conspiracy theories, George H.W. Bush, george w. bush, Henry Luce, Inslee Clark Jr., James Jesus Engleton, John Kerry, L. Ron Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard author of Fear, Lewis Lapham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Van Buren, Pancho Villa, Prescott Bush, Satchel Paige, Stephen Schwarzman, The Order of Skull & Bones Yale, William F. Buckley | 1 Comment

not pie in the sky

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Dave

It is essential to have voices like Aron Kay on the political spectrum. Agree or not with him, one is not left indifferent. Although sometimes labeled an eccentric activist, its a coherent belief, a throwback to the socialism of nineteenth … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abbie Hoffman, abe beame, amy arbus, aron kay, bill ayers, ed koch, emmanuel levinas, g. gordon liddy, George Carlin, Jerry Rubin, Martin Buber, nick lowe, otto larsen, Rupert Murdoch, terrence mckenna, william colby, William F. Buckley | Leave a comment

when dicky was tricky: campaign swag and swagger

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Art

Back in the old days when elections were brass-knuckled affairs. Art looks back on the advertising ”swag” of the 1968 presidential election and Richard Nixon. Art Chantry:Back in 1968, during the election fiasco that produced the presidency of Richard Nixon, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Abbie Hoffman, art chantry, dan rather, Gore Vidal, Jerry Rubin, John Wayne, Richard Nixon, William F. Buckley | Leave a comment

LANGUAGE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Dave

By detaching art from aesthetics,Marcel Duchamp set it spinning on a different course from the one it had followed since the Renaissance. His concept of the ready-made work of art came out of the blue. It could not have been … Continue reading →