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Category Archives: America
WSJ: ‘In Trump’s Second Term, a Bolder President Charges Ahead Unchecked’
I’m pretty shocked that Donald Trump is pushing back at institutions that pushed against him during his first-term and its humiliating afterlife. Journalists tend to be secular, so they might not have heard of the Biblical insight that you reap … Continue reading
2006 Book: ‘Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them’
Do these conmen, professional liars and hysterics dominating America feel any shame? Do they ever get embarrassed? Why doesn’t polite society shun them? Why doesn’t the blob (America’s foreign policy establishment) cast them out? Why do universities honor them? I … Continue reading
What Will A Maga Takeover Of The Federal Reserve Look Like?
AI suggests: Under a MAGA Fed, interest rates aren’t adjusted by economists—they’re announced at rallies with a chant: “Raise it! Lower it! Raise it! Lower it!” Instead of the Beige Book, they issue the Red Hat Book. Every chapter ends … Continue reading
The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
01:00 Video: CNN Host Abby Phillip Keeps Shedding Viewers & Attacking Her Guests, w/ Halperin, Spicer, Turrentine12:00 The Death of Mainstream Media, & Why Gavin Newsom Won’t Run | Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ZGcvtsqiM20:00 COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/covid-pandemic-revisionism-books/683954/27:45 Why … Continue reading
Restoring Quality Of Life
Just under my friendly amiable surface, is a default setting where I instinctively try to do that which maximizes attention. To navigate life without humiliating myself constantly, I have to transcend that default setting into one where I make choices … Continue reading
Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
01:00 Why Do Elite News Operations Sound So Dumb So Often? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16288613:00 Industrial Policy’s Potential with Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykCxs4aFl421:00 Yoram Hazony: The Man Driving the Nationalist Revival on the Right, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1625661:08:00 Industrial Policy for the United States: … Continue reading
The most powerful systems of epistemic closure in America today
Written with ChatGPT: Epistemic closure = when a community defines what can and cannot be questioned, and enforces consensus not through argument but by gatekeeping who counts as credible. Stephen P. Turner’s point is that closure is inevitable; the question … Continue reading
‘Campaign of Chaos: Trump, Biden, Harris, and the 2024 American Election’
I remember when Larry Sabato was not diminished by Trump Derangement Syndrome (99% of his public comments about Trump are negative). Now I read in his new book that Kamala Harris “ran as good a campaign as anyone could have … Continue reading
Nobody Is Coming (8-10-25)
01:00 Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E‑Personality (2011), https://yourmoralleader.blogspot.com/2025/08/virtually-you-dangerous-powers-of.html15:00 ‘No one is coming to save you: you are the one you are waiting for’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16266222:00 Michael joins to talk about Richard Nixon, https://x.com/MichaelmvlogStatus, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16265550:00 Status anxiety, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1626551:05:00 My … Continue reading
When Elites Restrict Our Speech, It’s Because They Love Truth, Freedom & Democracy (8-3-25)
01:00 I’m the Peter North of cognitive loads07:10 Speak Like This to Blow Up Your Personal Brand On YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqOigPK-J7E28:00 NYT: Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_PCNgW79E31:20 NYT: Yoram Hazony: The Man Driving the Nationalist Revival … Continue reading