The Growing Revolt Over Covid Restrictions & Bank Bailouts (3-17-23)

01:00 Trump vs DeSantis on Ukraine, https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1635473436418998273
03:00 Trump on the banking crisis,
https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-road-for-maga
05:00 WP: Trump escalates his white-nationalist doomerism, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/trump-white-nationalism-russia-2024-election/
14:00 Putin’s Folly: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/06/putins-folly-invasion-luke-harding/
26:30 Dylan becomes a girl
34:40 Jussie Smollett hoax
37:00 NYT: America Has Decided It Went Overboard on Covid-19, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/opinion/covid-19-pandemic-masks-china.html
43:00 NYB: Janet Malcolm called Chekhov’s work an “exercise in withholding, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/06/the-master-of-toska-chekhov-becomes-chekhov-blaisdell/
59:00 Noah Carl in Quilette, https://quillette.com/author/noah-carl/
1:00:00 A review of ‘How to Argue With a Racist’ by Adam Rutherford, https://noahcarl.substack.com/p/a-review-of-how-to-argue-with-a-racist
1:10:00 NYT: Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opinion/masks-work-cochrane-study.html
1:14:20 The Age of Easy Money, https://www.pbs.org/video/age-of-easy-money-osu8cj/
1:17:00 NYT: What’s Wrong With Getting a Little Free Legal Advice?, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/opinion/lawyers-debt-monopoly-advice.html
1:19:00 Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143252
1:25:00 The politics of expertise, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143550
1:28:00 FT: Britain embraces trivia because it is stuck on the big issues, https://www.ft.com/content/7f03c61c-28b4-41df-b100-df020a50c011

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Is Donald Trump A Fascist? (3-16-23)

01:00 Everything is open to abuse
10:00 Critiquing tonight’s Tucker Carlson
26:10 5 Activities to Develop Emotional Intelligence and Maturity
53:00 Fascism comes to America
59:00 Jonathan Chait: Republicans are fascier

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Fascism Comes To America (3-15-23)

01:00 Critiquing Tucker critiquing America’s foreign policy
55:00 Fascism comes to America, https://newrepublic.com/article/170890/does-american-fascism-exist
1:01:00 David Sacks on the banking crisis
1:08:00 Jonathan Chait: Republicans are fascier

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There’s No Escape From Fear, Vulnerability & Bank Failure (3-14-23)

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How To Move From Surviving To Thriving (3-13-23)

01:00 LAT: With demands for a bank bailout, Silicon Valley shows its ‘small government’ mantra was just a pose, https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-12/with-demands-for-a-bank-bailout-silicon-valley-shows-its-small-government-mantra-was-just-a-scam
05:00 Ricky Vaugh aka Doug Mackey goes on trial for satire, https://twitter.com/myth_pilot/status/1635300560298729475
10:00 News Is A Stress Test, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147167
24:00 Essay: You’re Better Off Not Knowing, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/information-news-addiction-liberal-depression/673351/
31:10 Doc Snipes: 5 Habits to Move from Surviving to Thriving, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7t0V-5X18w
42:00 The Coddling Of The American Mind, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/id1651876897?i=1000603422829
50:30 NYT: UPenn Accuses a Law Professor of Racist Statements. Should She Be Fired?, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/upenn-law-professor-racism-freedom-speech.html
1:08:00 Academics aren’t incentivized to reach out to the public
1:10:00 Decoding the Gurus, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
1:13:00 The thousands of failed academics

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