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Category Archives: America
Why Do The Democrats Lack Confidence?
ChatGPT says: Pride is a guidance system that makes people pursue and advertise behaviors that local audiences value; confidence is the behavioral readout when those behaviors are rewarded. Democrats’ current “anti-Trump” identity yields weak pride signals because audiences don’t value … Continue reading
Why So Many Members of “The Blob” Want a New Cold War with China
David Feith at the Hudson Institute writes this Op/Ed in the Washington Post: To outcompete China, America must believe in itself again America’s new era of great-power rivalry demands strength and clarity — not exhaustion and doubt. …President Donald Trump … Continue reading
As The MAGA Turns: How American Nationalists Fell Out Of Love With Israel (10-12-25)
01:00 The magic key of evolutionary psychology, https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/04:30 Batya: Steve Bannon on Gaza peace deal,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqnyV6ktwYE07:00 My confidence comes from my pride which flows from the direction of my social status, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16426131:00 How Did Trump Pull Off This Middle East Peace … Continue reading
How Did Trump Pull Off This Middle East Peace Deal Without Experts?
I don’t sneer at experts, expertise and the ruling elite. I don’t think this crowd is any more likely to be wrong or bad than any other group. Sometimes the experts are right and sometimes the people are right. Truth … Continue reading
The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America
The authors write in this 2023 book: We challenge the static, “essentialist” conception of ideology that currently dominates public and academic discourse alike, and instead propose a “social” conception in which the political spectrum and the ideological terms associated with … Continue reading
As the MAGA Turns: How American nationalists fell out of love with Israel
Before I considered converting to Judaism, I didn’t think much about Israel. We didn’t talk about Jews and Israel in my Seventh-Day Adventist home. Instead, I heard 20 times more negative things about Catholics than I did about Jews. My … Continue reading
Video: Trump Calls Portland “A Burning Hellhole,” Slams Judges for Trying To Block Him From Sending Troops
Mark Halperin’s guest Ray says 39 minutes in: “From a MAGA perspective, the Democrats should all be killed.” I’ve never heard a Republican or a conservative express this desire. YT comments: * “Sorry for the bad word” said with such … Continue reading
We Can Create The Society We Want If We Adjust Incentives (10-5-25)
03:45 The Worst College Football Team In The Nation On Saturday Beat One Of The Best, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16411405:00 Terrorism on Yom Kippur, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx3bHxiGxxA24:00 Getting Away With It, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16412040:20 The AI Economist: The Skill You Need to Stay Employed in the Age … Continue reading
Will Reparations Improve Black-White Relations?
From The FT: “In 2019, Evanston, Illinois — a university town of 78,000 outside Chicago — became the first US municipality to set up a $10mn reparations fund to compensate African Americans for residential racism. From 1919 to 1969, most … Continue reading
Female Autonomy Under Review?
The boring predictable journo Amanda Hess writes in the New York Times: “But when “Gutfeld!” airs, it also projects Ms. Kat Timpf into a political ecosystem in which women’s autonomy over their bodies and lives is under review — where … Continue reading