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Category Archives: America
American Epistemics
Written with help from Gemini: The concept of “no-fly zones” in social discourse refers to the informal but powerful taboos that prevent open critique of specific groups. This creates tension between the protection of minority communities and the epistemic health … Continue reading
The Most Socially Toxic Inconvenient Truths (1-18-26)
01:00 Trump’s Furries & ICE Wide Shut | The Tim Dillon Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-3Du_VctY05:00 I Hallucinate, You Hallucinate, We All Hallucinate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16651508:00 The Luke Ford Genre, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16655914:40 Iran, Minneapolis, Greenland and the conclusion of the first year of the second Trump … Continue reading
Mark Halperin: For Millions Of Americans, The Election Of Donald Trump Is The Worst Thing To Ever Happen To Them.
The intensity of the reaction to Donald Trump suggests that for many Americans, the injury is primarily symbolic rather than material. When people describe his presidency as a personal catastrophe, they are often describing a collapse of the cultural hero … Continue reading
Trump Buried Conservatism
Ross Douthat writes: …he’s made the old institutions of movement conservatism, think tanks and magazines, even Fox News, seem superannuated or irrelevant while presiding over a transition to the new forms forged in imitation of his success — the world … Continue reading
The Filkins Pivot: Legacy Prestige and the Fracturing of the Chattering Class (1-16-26)
01:00 The Chattering Class Is Losing Their War On Reality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16629006:00 A New Iranian Revolution? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm6Ohi5fwM416:00 Why So Many Unattractive Women Are Posting Their Sad and Bizarre Anti-ICE Videos, with Adam Carolla, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyu0pARK–M40:00 A Strongly Identifying In-Group Requires An Enemy, … Continue reading
What things has Trump done that will be hardest to undo?
Ezra Klein talks to Yuval Levin and argues that Trump hasn’t accomplished much. I think they undersell Trump’s changes. If you define consequence by the number of bills passed, the first year of this second term might look thin on … Continue reading
Why Golf Courses Sometimes Divide Up On Race
Some of my Jewish friends love golf because everyone on the course has WASP manners. Steve Sailer writes: One of the more reasonable outlets for President Trump’s Edifice Complex is his interest in Washington D.C.’s three municipal golf courses. Trump … Continue reading
The Other Side Is Ugly
Naomi Wolff posts on X: “I’ve seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke … Continue reading
Everybody Scolding Trump Over Greenland Seems So Dreary While Trump & His Fans Enjoy The LOL Nothing Matters Life
What a great study in political theater. You have the contrast between the high-alert, “the world is ending” tone of European diplomats and Trump’s casual, almost playful demeanor. It creates a strange kind of cognitive dissonance. To the foreign policy … Continue reading
What Wild & Crazy Thing Might Trump Do Next?
Gemini says: From the vantage point of January 5, 2026, asking what Trump might do “next” feels a bit like asking what happens after a hurricane makes landfall—the storm is already here. Following the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela … Continue reading