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Category Archives: America
WP: Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies
Through the mid-2000s, surveys showed Republicans and Democrats had similar confidence in science and scientists. The divergence started when “Science Inc.”—the institutional complex of universities, public health agencies, journals, and major foundations—moved into overt cultural and political advocacy. Climate change … Continue reading
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Why Are People So Emotionally Invested In Trump’s White House Renovations?
What matters most to me is outside of me. I largely matter to the extent I am part of something bigger than myself — such as being a part of the Jewish people, the American people, and a certain traditional … Continue reading
The Left’s Hysteria Over Trump’s Ballroom
The left’s outcry on this White House complex construction punctures their buffered identity. Out of everything Trump has done, this is what moves you to tears? As a trad with a porous identity, I understand the impulse—how we fuse with … Continue reading
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How I Fell In Love With The Dodgers & Cowboys
I moved to Napa, California from Australia in May of 1977 (turning 11 on 5-28-77) and I spent most of the next three months in the Pacific Union college library. Initially, I read books on World War II. Then I … Continue reading
No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
01:00 Democrats seem to be flailing with these No Kings Protests, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16437205:00 Mark Halperin: Inside the Democrats’ Identity Crisis and the Anti-Trump Playbook That Cost Them Power, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoz54DevKbc11:00 I was retweeted by Ann Coulter, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16440215:00 Mark Halperin’s Silicon Valley yoda … Continue reading
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How Trump Restored The Great Man Theory Of History
The world’s most prestigious columnist, Janan Ganesh, writes for the FT: I have been won over to Great Man-ism of late, and Donald Trump is the reason. The trigger for this conversion? Watching free trade, support for which used to … Continue reading
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Conservative Princeton Student: ‘I never realized how many people are this violent and hateful. I don’t know what to do with that.’
I was retweeted by Ann Coulter last week for my Sep. 12 post: From today’s 2Way show: Jacob: I’m a Princeton student, currently on a two-year break working in marketing for my professor. I’ve been a conservative my whole life. … Continue reading
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The No Kings Protests
I look at the Democrats and I see patterns that have characterized my life: Wild flailing. Running in circles. Swinging and missing. Trying things. Histrionic pronouncements. Big claims, few results. Fighting reality. Cursing. Feedback loops collapse when people don’t care … Continue reading
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Democracy in America
I just read this classic work by Alexis De Tocqueville and I am surprised by how judgy it is. Intellectuals love this book because it flatters them. I’m tired of apologetics for the one true faith and the one true … Continue reading
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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
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