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Category Archives: America
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
Here are the highlights with timestamps from the transcript featuring consumer psychologist Lura Forcum and political theorist Lauren Hall talking to sociologist Musa al-Gharbi, author of the book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite: … Continue reading
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How Status Closure Created The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
01:00 Status Closure and The Lost Generation, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16563803:00 The Vanishing White Male Writer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OpzLRWPsXg28:40 People Do Best When They Know What They Are For, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKL-duqb8uo1:33:30 Boy Erased, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmE7c7Eb-w1:35:00 Who are the ‘lost generation’?2:00:40 Mike Benz analyzes the New York Times … Continue reading
Status Closure and The Lost Generation
Donald Trump Batters The Credential Society On Christmas Eve—or Nittel Nacht, as we call it in the tribe—I was doing my level best to avoid studying Torah. To distract myself, I opened the Perlego app (the Netflix of textbooks!) and … Continue reading
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The Iron Fortress: Decoding the Right’s Vitalist Turn (12-21-25)
01:00 The Lost Generation, https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/02:30 Jacob Savage interview, https://thecarousel.substack.com/p/jacob-savage20:00 12 Symptoms of Under-Earning, https://www.underearnersanonymous.org/newcomers-to-underearners-anonymous/symptoms-of-underearning/35:00 DEI And the Lost Generation of Young White Men, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRGjtAtEefs39:00 DEI Diminished Trust In Our Institutions, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16561642:00 Where Diversity Makes Things Better, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16560744:20 Nicki Manaj talks … Continue reading
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The Lost Generation
If we accept Jacob Savage’s essay, “The Lost Generation” as fact, how many six figure jobs in these elite industries were denied to young white men by racial discrimination? Even without DEI, there are few such dream jobs. Even in … Continue reading
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Mugged by Reality
Gemini: The original phrase is widely attributed to neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol, who said, “A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” (This was later shortened in popular parlance to “a liberal who got mugged.”) To update … Continue reading
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The Iron Fortress: Decoding the Right’s Vitalist Turn
The more I lose at life, the more I withdraw, feel aggrieved and ungrateful, and the more I see nefarious forces dominating the world around me. I also feel less loyalty to the system. The more I win at life, … Continue reading
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Evelyn Waugh: ‘Strong Mutually Antagonistic Governments Everywhere’
In this piece, Steve Sailer applies his characteristic socio-demographic lens to the intersection of Indian domestic politics and American immigration policy. The central tension he identifies is that a “better ruled” India (under Hindu Nationalism) produces a specific type of … Continue reading
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The Lost Generation In The Age Of Conservative Claims Of Cultural Oppression
Jacob Savage’s essay “The Lost Generation” argues that a cohort of white male millennials in creative and academic fields (journalism, TV writing, academia) has been systematically “lost”—sacrificed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates that accelerated around 2014. Savage contends … Continue reading
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The Lost Generation In Liberal Democracy 3.0
Stephen Turner’s Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts provides a theoretical framework that explains the structural mechanisms behind the phenomenon described in Jacob Savage’s essay, “The Lost Generation.” While Savage’s essay offers a sociological and data-driven … Continue reading