Category Archives: America

Average COVID death costs 16 years of life (7-28-21)

Posted on July 28, 2021 by Luke Ford

01:00 Are US flu death figures more PR than science? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141529 03:00 Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges — The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141527 05:00 What are … Continue reading →

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Do Whites Have Civil Rights? (7-21-21)

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Do whites have civil rights? https://www.takimag.com/article/do-whites-have-civil-rights/ 22:30 THE FINAL BOSS OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO THE DISSIDENT RIGHT, https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/2021/07/shortpod-66-final-boss-of-what-actually.html 35:00 Am I a laughing stock? The answer might shock you. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141266 38:00 ‘I’m sorry, but it’s too late’: Alabama … Continue reading →

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Do Your Networks Pull You Apart? (7-16-21)

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Marilyn Monroe’s networks pulled her apart, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141257 10:00 Genres, Objects, and the Contemporary Expression of Higher-Status Tastes, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141245 17:00 How to live given the certainty of death, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Hu465KL1w 20:00 ‘School athletics at the center of attention devalues intellectual students’, … Continue reading →

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Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen (7-14-21)

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Acting Jewish by Henry Bial, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140799 02:00 Henry Bial’s The Jewish Pop Culture Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-703243949/jewish-pop-culture-podcast-lecture-feb-23 15:00 Styxhexenhammer Show ep. 17- I Was Right Again About Breadtube Astroturfing (Superchat Q&A), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PYnrBY-z9s 16:00 Definition of Breadtube, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BreadTube 28:00 David Mamet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet … Continue reading →

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The Politics Of Biblical Interpretation (7-13-21)

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Aloe vera and ginseng 02:00 There’s No Cure for Antisemitism, But There is a Vaccine, https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/338618/theres-no-cure-for-antisemitism-but-there-is-a-vaccine/ 11:00 Religious studies as an academic discipline, https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/religious-studies-as-a-discipline/ 15:00 How Luke Ford and his Show “Changed my Life” Part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg-kwHTVP0M 54:00 Gods … Continue reading →

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Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2012 book by David Hackett Fischer: * When one compares these many accounts, one notices that the same language of description tends to occur. Karl Popper described New Zealanders as “decent, friendly and well-disposed.” … Continue reading →

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Talking Nationalism With The Rabbi

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Rabbi Judas Maccabeus, https://twitter.com/JudasMaccabeus7 02:00 Rabbi’s Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLgG… 04:00 Sephardic Jewry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephard… 05:00 Jewish Day Schools, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_… 09:30 Attitudes toward America 10:40 Average IQs among Mizrahim, Sephardim, Ashkenazim 11:00 Judas believes IQ is primarily the result of genetics … Continue reading →

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Saving Private Godward (7-1-21)

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Saving Private Ryan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan 01:30 Justin Martyr’s Dialog with Trypho, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spv_T4QE9Ow 03:00 Justin the Martyr, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr 05:00 Fruit of the Holy Spirit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_Holy_Spirit 36:45 Justin Martyr by Andrew Hayes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmdaGIteNo 1:07:00 Justin Martyr and the Jews, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1453625 1:14:00 The … Continue reading →

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Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from Charles Murray’s new book: * From the first census in 1790 through the 1850 census, the population within America’s settled regions was 82–84 percent European and the rest was African. Subsequent tides of immigration increased … Continue reading →

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The Myth of a Majority-Minority America

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Luke Ford

Three academics publish in The Atlantic June 16, 2021: The narrative that nonwhite people will soon outnumber white people is not only divisive, but also false. In recent years, demographers and pundits have latched on to the idea that, within … Continue reading →

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