March 26, 2023 Does The New China-Russia Alliance Threaten America? (3-26-23) Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Does The New China-Russia Alliance Threaten America? (3-26-23)

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Russia, China are not creating military alliance, Putin says, https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-russia-china-not-creating-military-alliance-agencies-2023-03-26/
24:20 WEHT to Stefan Molyneux? Don’t Live Without Love! https://odysee.com/@freedomain:b/Dont_Live_Without_Love:6
26:20 In Defense of the Globalists, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeSuLJNnFbo
28:30 Stuart Ritchie: Don’t panic about social media harming your child’s mental health – the evidence is weak, https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/dont-panic-about-social-media-harming-your-childs-mental-health-the-evidence-is-weak-2230571
40:00 A comprehensive review of randomized clinical trials in three medical journals reveals 396 medical reversals, https://elifesciences.org/articles/45183
45:50 Alan Dershowitz on possible Trump indictment
47:30 Ritchie: How parents can actually help their children avoid peanut allergies, https://inews.co.uk/news/parents-children-avoid-peanuts-allergies-analysis-2225621
50:00 Ritchie: Science is bad at measuring depression, and it is ruining attempts to understand it, https://inews.co.uk/news/science-bad-measuring-depression-ruining-attempts-understand-2214971
55:00 How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives, https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/
1:00 Ann Coulter talks to Heather Mac Donald about the black family, https://anncoulter.substack.com/
1:02:00 Matt Taibi on a possible ban on Tiktok
1:04:00 Matt Taibi on the Twitter files
1:07:00 Eye on the Present—The Whig History of Science, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/12/17/eye-present-whig-history-science/
1:08:00 Exchange on the whig history of Science, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/the-whig-history-of-science-an-exchange/

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Nathan Cofnas, Lipton Matthews Discuss Jews (3-24-23)

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Luke Ford

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Trump Indictment Tomorrow? (3-21-23)

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 I bought her silence with your superchats
06:30 Rise of the Neo-Prudes! — Amy Wax, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/not-without-a-fight-amy-wax
10:00 The art of forgetting, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/09/the-dream-of-forgetfulness-primer-for-forgetting-lewis-hyde/
14:30 Tucker on the prospects of an indictment of Donald Trump
18:30 The Silicon Valley Bank Attack?
26:00 Lefties on MSNBC salivate at prospect of arresting Trump supporters
41:00 The Long Shadow of German Colonialism, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/09/the-long-shadow-of-german-colonialism-thomas-rogers/
47:00 RH: Amazon customers give white package delivery men higher ratings than non-whites
1:08:00 Amy Wax had three kids, she started at age 37, had two kids in her forties

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Will A Trump Indictment Spark Riots? (3-20-23)

Posted on March 20, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:30 Tucker Carlson on Trump’s looming indictment
24:00 Heterodox Academy: A good idea gone awry?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTsnozDF20
25:00 Why it took years for Cofnas to publish his critque of Heterodox Academy
26:00 Four Reasons Why Heterodox Academy Failed,
https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/35/4/four-reasons-why-heterodox-academy-failed
42:00 Bethany Mandel can’t define woke
56:00 The people who fought the Nazis took race differences for granted
57:00 The Nazis denied the validity of IQ, they rejected Darwinism
1:06:30 Helmet Nyborg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_Nyborg
1:07:30 American Renaissance is not a hate group
1:13:00 Nathan Cofnas was initially excited to join Heterodox Academy
1:14:00 Heterodox Academy won’t defend academics such as Bo Winegard, Amy Wax

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NYR: Adherents to Maria Montessori’s radical methods have extended from progressive parents to Benito Mussolini

Posted on March 20, 2023 by Luke Ford

From the New York Review:

* From her earliest days at the university Montessori identified as a feminist and a socialist. She became secretary of the Association for Women, a group that lobbied for community education, female suffrage, a law for the determination of paternity, and equal pay for men and women, all issues that would come to impinge dramatically on her own life. When she began a relationship with a young psychiatrist named Giuseppe Montesano in 1895, Montessori laid down some nonnegotiable ground rules: her medical career came first, she would never marry, and their attachment must be kept private. It was the type of unsanctioned and voluntary arrangement that the pioneering “new women” of the 1890s were trying out around the world, from Moscow to New York.

Motherhood, however, has a way of disrupting even the most high-minded and equitable arrangements. In the summer of 1897 Montessori became pregnant. In an extraordinary inversion of the usual script, Montesano was happy to offer marriage, while Renilde insisted that her twenty-eight-year-old daughter consider no such thing. A family story repeated as late as the 1990s by Maria’s granddaughter has Renilde declaring, “You have done what no other woman has ever done in Italy. You are a scientist, a doctor, you are everything, now because of a baby you could lose everything.” At her mother’s insistence, Montessori gave birth in great secrecy, with the paperwork stating that both the mother and father of her baby son were “unknown.” In time-honored fashion, the infant, named Mario, was put into the care of a country wet nurse. Montessori, the antithesis of a modern madonna, contented herself with visits to her child whenever her busy working schedule allowed.

* Rita Kramer, who was able to interview Mario for her 1976 biography of Maria:

“Mario Montessori’s memory is of a spring day in 1913 when he was about fifteen, seeing on a school outing the lady whose visits have punctuated his childhood and been explained in his fantasies. A car stopped where he was resting; she got out and he went up to her and said simply, “I know you are my mother,” and told her he wanted to go with her. She made no objection, he got into the car with her.”

* One former elementary school teacher who had always been impressed by the Montessori method, which he had encountered as a member of the Humanitarian Society, was Benito Mussolini. In 1924 he donated 10,000 lire of his own money to help found the Opera Montessori, an agency with public and private funding to promote the system. Il Duce saw the advantage of Montessori’s method for producing industrious, disciplined, and literate future citizens. The Dottoressa was naturally delighted—here at last was the official support that she had long wanted. There would be training courses, a journal, a whole Montessori ecosystem that, with any luck, would provide a living for her beloved Mario, who by now had joined her in the family business.

De Stefano is scrupulous about not underplaying Montessori’s dalliance with Mussolini. In 1931 she wrote to him:

“In sum, my method can collaborate with fascism so that it will realize the possibilities to construct great spiritual energies; create a real mental hygiene that, when applied to our race, can enhance its enormous powers that—I am certain—outstrip the powers of all the other races.”

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