Category Archives: America

The Vlogosphere and its Enemies (1-7-24)

01:00 Trump is an American representative of the populist nationalist surge, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/opinion/trump-election-2024.html03:00 Designated Survivor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_Survivor_(TV_series)05:00 NYTimes podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aubBW1ZOwc33:00 The blogosphere and its enemies: the case of oophorectomy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14022756:00 Doctors performs hundreds of unnecessary surgeries, https://magazine.atavist.com/damages-javaid-perwaiz-virginia-obgyn-surgeries-lawsuit/59:00 Using women’s bodies to get … Continue reading

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How Covid Explains My Worldview (1-1-24)

01:00 Different strategies have differing effectiveness in different situations10:30 Stop saying “we need to build alternative institutions”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyq126kZMI23:00 Life is a Dinner Table, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSawhpPzOFs42:20 People with Bigger Brains are More Intelligent45:00 Immigrants with less than a bachelor’s degree are a … Continue reading

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Looking For Signs Of Victory In Gaza (12-31-23)

01:00 The Guardian: As Gaza death toll mounts, Israelis look in vain for any sign of victory, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15383105:30 Do we need to talk about group differences, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/amy-wax-versus-the-midwit-gynocrats07:30 Nathan Cofnas influences Amy Waxhttps://twitter.com/MillennialWoes/status/174010090356543127708:00 Amy Wax: The Woke and the Asleep: Hanania’s … Continue reading

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Democracy Dies In Darkness (12-27-23)

01:00 Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15375804:00 Marty Baron on leading The Washington Post and covering President Trump , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGie7DGC5p022:00 Stephen J James joins, https://twitter.com/MuskMaximalist36:20 The falling out between Charles Johnson and Richard Spencer42:00 Black-pilled freaks1:24:45 … Continue reading

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How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato write in this 2023 book: * Contrary to what many people think, we cannot equate rationality with success and nonrationality with failure. Rationality is not about outcomes. Rational actors often fail to achieve their … Continue reading

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