The pleasure and honor’s all mine, Steve. You called it on so many things, and I see your arguments everywhere. Little did I know that much of what I’ve been thinking was written by you more than ten years prior somehow.
I’m probably partial because your versatility in topics is a bit like my own (I can’t limit myself to one thing either). I don’t think I’d have the acumen or patience to pore over so much data though.
I hope you liked the review. Maybe it’ll bring more readers your way and vindicate your efforts and curiosities.
Someone contact 'Chronicles' editor-in-chief Paul Gottfried, and a demand Steve Sailer (who has been published there before) be given a monthly long-form column. Possibly reviving his movie-review column from days of yore.
Bad suggestion for a possible Sailer movie-review column's name: "Sailing through Hollywood, by Steve Sailer."
In the 2000s, Steve was often billed as "movie critic for The American Conservative." But it seems he has published no movie-reviews there in the 2010s or 2020s.
Of his 750+ columns at Taki-Mag (since becoming a regular there around 2009, when Richard B. Spencer was executive editor), I'm not sure how many have been movie-reviews.
The most-recent one, on Gladiator II, is a movie-review, but it seems his weekly Taki column topic is "Whatever I feel like."
A regularized, long-form movie-review column for an outlet as good as 'Chronicles' would be a wave lifting lots of good boats. We wonder what Sailer would do with it, and there is no one better qualified.
I write a few movie reviews per year, generally about well-known properties that are of broad interest. In 2023, for example, I recall reviewing "Oppenheimer," "Barbie," and "Napoleon:" two deserved hits and one flop about a really famous guy.
I'm not very good at anticipating what movies will be of wide interest, so I typically wait until after the opening weekend to review it.
What about another anthology, collecting all of Steve's movie reviews? Unlike most movie critics, who focus mainly on whether the director/writer/actor/ cinematographer did a good job, Steve's reviews offer unparalleled insight into the broader world and culture. They are enjoyable to read, even if you never watch the movie in question.
A review of "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class" by Rob Henderson, a mixed-race half-East-Asian 'Hapa' abandoned as a child in California around the 1990s, who turned his life around.
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"Our Immigration Debate Needs to Get With the Times," June 2024
A review of a then-recent debate sponsored and moderated by Bari Weiss, which pitted pro-immigrationists Cenk Uygur and Nick Gillespie (Reason magazine) against anti-immigrationist Ann Coulter and nominal anti-immigrationist immigrant Sohrab Ahmari (b.1985, Iran; arr. in the USA, 1998; converted to Roman-Catholicism, mid-2010s; married to a Chinese woman, two 'Hapa' children). Meyrat criticized all four of them, or their debate-performances at any rate: Ann Coulter for her "instinctive contrarianism and her defiant edgy tone[, which] undermined the case for securing the border" and Ahmari's "half-hearted, polite responses[, which] barely touched the surface of the argument." ("Meanwhile, Uygur and Gillespie’s tone-deaf, uninformed, anti-American rants continue to justify the chaos of an open border.")
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"Left-wing Normies Have Been Radicalized," July 2024
On mainstreamed support by some for political violence that would've been inconceivable twenty years ago, a reflection following the first Trump shooting
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"Now is No Time to Boycott the Olympic Games," August 2024
On the "culture war" talk after the Olympics featured that Trans-man fracturing the skull of a lady boxer and later taking the gold, and criticized elements of the Paris-2024's opening ceremony.
A brief report from the latest flashpoint in the battle of the sexes, the "Tradwife" meme, or in this case not inter-sex but intra-sex: feminist-leaning women being upset over the popularity of the Tradwife meme among other women.
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"The Dating Crisis is Really a Maturity Crisis," August 2024
Prompted by a viral Reddit thread in which a woman was puzzled at her boyfriend's reaction to her complimenting him by saying he's the kind of guy she'd marry and not be a "friends with benefits" with. Mr. Meyrat says: "[R]elationships in today’s world have been poisoned by the loss of a moral center and the rampant juvenile absurdity that follows..."
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"Ignoring the Red Flags of School Shooters," October 2024
The book review of the much-praised bestseller NOTICING by Steve Sailer, a man with "a firm grasp " of reality and the foolhardy courage to write what he sees (or notices, if you must).
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Thank you, Auguste Meyrat! And keep the columns coming.
Thanks for posting. I have yet to receive my new Chronicles so I get a head start. I just ordered "Noticing" from Passage Press and look forward to reading it. Funny that Steve Sailer is a more important writer than the man who banished him from National Review, Rich Lowry, who has yet to write anything interesting in his many years in journalism.
The pleasure and honor’s all mine, Steve. You called it on so many things, and I see your arguments everywhere. Little did I know that much of what I’ve been thinking was written by you more than ten years prior somehow.
I’m probably partial because your versatility in topics is a bit like my own (I can’t limit myself to one thing either). I don’t think I’d have the acumen or patience to pore over so much data though.
I hope you liked the review. Maybe it’ll bring more readers your way and vindicate your efforts and curiosities.
(EDIT: moved list of Auguste Meyrat's Chronicles articles to its own comment):
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/book-review-of-noticing-in-chronicles/comment/80853050
Someone contact 'Chronicles' editor-in-chief Paul Gottfried, and a demand Steve Sailer (who has been published there before) be given a monthly long-form column. Possibly reviving his movie-review column from days of yore.
Bad suggestion for a possible Sailer movie-review column's name: "Sailing through Hollywood, by Steve Sailer."
He already does a weekly column for Takimag.
In the 2000s, Steve was often billed as "movie critic for The American Conservative." But it seems he has published no movie-reviews there in the 2010s or 2020s.
Of his 750+ columns at Taki-Mag (since becoming a regular there around 2009, when Richard B. Spencer was executive editor), I'm not sure how many have been movie-reviews.
The most-recent one, on Gladiator II, is a movie-review, but it seems his weekly Taki column topic is "Whatever I feel like."
A regularized, long-form movie-review column for an outlet as good as 'Chronicles' would be a wave lifting lots of good boats. We wonder what Sailer would do with it, and there is no one better qualified.
I write a few movie reviews per year, generally about well-known properties that are of broad interest. In 2023, for example, I recall reviewing "Oppenheimer," "Barbie," and "Napoleon:" two deserved hits and one flop about a really famous guy.
I'm not very good at anticipating what movies will be of wide interest, so I typically wait until after the opening weekend to review it.
What about another anthology, collecting all of Steve's movie reviews? Unlike most movie critics, who focus mainly on whether the director/writer/actor/ cinematographer did a good job, Steve's reviews offer unparalleled insight into the broader world and culture. They are enjoyable to read, even if you never watch the movie in question.
I wish both Sailer and John Derbyshire would have monthly columns in Chronicles.
A list of Chronicles Magazine articles written by Auguste Meyrat (https://chroniclesmagazine.org/author/augustemeyrat/):
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"Conservatives for the Working Class," March 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/conservatives-for-the-working-class/
A review of "Tyranny, Inc." by Sohrab Ahmari, editor-ibn-chief of Compact magazine.
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"Is Rob Henderson ‘Troubled’ or Blessed?" April 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/is-rob-henderson-troubled-or-blessed/
A review of "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class" by Rob Henderson, a mixed-race half-East-Asian 'Hapa' abandoned as a child in California around the 1990s, who turned his life around.
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"Our Immigration Debate Needs to Get With the Times," June 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/our-immigration-debate-needs-to-get-with-the-times/
A review of a then-recent debate sponsored and moderated by Bari Weiss, which pitted pro-immigrationists Cenk Uygur and Nick Gillespie (Reason magazine) against anti-immigrationist Ann Coulter and nominal anti-immigrationist immigrant Sohrab Ahmari (b.1985, Iran; arr. in the USA, 1998; converted to Roman-Catholicism, mid-2010s; married to a Chinese woman, two 'Hapa' children). Meyrat criticized all four of them, or their debate-performances at any rate: Ann Coulter for her "instinctive contrarianism and her defiant edgy tone[, which] undermined the case for securing the border" and Ahmari's "half-hearted, polite responses[, which] barely touched the surface of the argument." ("Meanwhile, Uygur and Gillespie’s tone-deaf, uninformed, anti-American rants continue to justify the chaos of an open border.")
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"Left-wing Normies Have Been Radicalized," July 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/left-wing-normies-have-been-radicalized/
On mainstreamed support by some for political violence that would've been inconceivable twenty years ago, a reflection following the first Trump shooting
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"Now is No Time to Boycott the Olympic Games," August 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/now-is-no-time-to-boycott-the-olympic-games/
On the "culture war" talk after the Olympics featured that Trans-man fracturing the skull of a lady boxer and later taking the gold, and criticized elements of the Paris-2024's opening ceremony.
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"How to Respond to Tradwife Envy," August 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/how-to-respond-to-tradwife-envy/
A brief report from the latest flashpoint in the battle of the sexes, the "Tradwife" meme, or in this case not inter-sex but intra-sex: feminist-leaning women being upset over the popularity of the Tradwife meme among other women.
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"The Dating Crisis is Really a Maturity Crisis," August 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-dating-crisis-is-really-a-maturity-crisis/
Prompted by a viral Reddit thread in which a woman was puzzled at her boyfriend's reaction to her complimenting him by saying he's the kind of guy she'd marry and not be a "friends with benefits" with. Mr. Meyrat says: "[R]elationships in today’s world have been poisoned by the loss of a moral center and the rampant juvenile absurdity that follows..."
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"Ignoring the Red Flags of School Shooters," October 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/ignoring-the-red-flags-of-school-shooters/
On the controversy over charging the father of a school-shooter.
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"Elon Musk Fights the Leviathan With Free Speech and Spaceships," October 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/elon-musk-fights-the-leviathan-with-free-speech-and-spaceships/
In praise of Elon Musk's vision and leadership, and what a surprise it is.
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"How Trump Can Save the American Economy," November 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/how-trump-can-save-the-american-economy/
The U.S. economy may be teetering on the "edge of collapse," so Trump supporters and advisers should take off the orange-tinted glasses.
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"The Crime of Noticing," December 2024
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/the-crime-of-noticing/
The book review of the much-praised bestseller NOTICING by Steve Sailer, a man with "a firm grasp " of reality and the foolhardy courage to write what he sees (or notices, if you must).
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Thank you, Auguste Meyrat! And keep the columns coming.
Thanks for posting. I have yet to receive my new Chronicles so I get a head start. I just ordered "Noticing" from Passage Press and look forward to reading it. Funny that Steve Sailer is a more important writer than the man who banished him from National Review, Rich Lowry, who has yet to write anything interesting in his many years in journalism.
Hey Steve, FYI: a short and fun article from a Minnesotan lady radicalized by traffic accidents
https://shjacobsberg.substack.com/p/school-drop-off-has-radicalized-me
I have a copy “Noticing” sitting right here on my table. I’ve loved every word of it.
You got a small, but favorable shout out in this year end review of best books of 2024: https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/11/the-federalist-notable-books-of-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-federalist-notable-books-of-2024&utm_term=2024-12-11
Thanks.