Category Archives: Germany

Decoding Germans & Jews (8-9-23)

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Different groups have different interests sometimes 03:00 It’s racist to force people to return to the work 20:00 German and Jews (2016), https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/germans_and_jews 22:00 Germans and Jews, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5718290/ 35:00 Can you have too much Holocaust education?

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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are some excerpts from this 2017 book by Christopher Clark: * The Prussian government continued to discriminate against Jewish applicants to public office. Jews found it extremely difficult to achieve promotion into the upper ranks of the judiciary, for … Continue reading →

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Beyond The Academic Ethic

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Luke Ford

Philosopher Stephen Turner published this essay in 2019: * the German academic system of the late nineteenth century, which became the model for the modern research university… * Harvard University, for the first three centuries of its existence, was essentially … Continue reading →

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Hitler Laughing: Comedy in the Third Reich (6-21-21)

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Cultural historian William Grange 01:00 Alexander Technique 03:00 My 2007 interview with William Grange 07:00 Aging and cognitive power 09:30 Writers block 12:00 American identity 15:00 African-American identity 20:00 The civil rights revolution 22:00 American theater and American identity … Continue reading →

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The German Historicist Tradition

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2012 book by Frederic Beiser: * …, historicism undermined the perennial search in Western philosophy to find transcendent justifications for social, political and moral values, i.e., the endeavor to give these values some universal … Continue reading →

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