Category Archives: America

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fear-of-trump-has-elite-law-firms-in-retreat-6f251dechttps://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-border-immigration-reverse-migration-150854c4?mod=hp_lead_pos5,Reverse immigration through Mexico: https://www.ft.com/content/112b7d98-ccbe-49c6-9021-7abe01328f8fColin Liddell unimpressed: https://x.com/cbliddell/status/1899504782575833234Jim Goad close to the end: https://x.com/NobleAtlas88/status/1686539573650915335/All events are ephemeral (study them if you enjoy it, not for evidence that you are superior): https://www.ft.com/content/c0734fa8-9b29-4f8e-848d-589dc92edbb8What Should Jews & Catholics Learn From Protestants? (3-9-25), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=159514NYT: … Continue reading →

You can imagine my dismay when I read in the New York Times March 6, 2025: “People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their … Continue reading →

Aaron Renn writes Oct. 3, 2024: The rich are first in line here. They are building bunkers, and also acquiring massive ranches and other amounts of rural land. They are also among the people acquiring multiple passports. CNBC did an … Continue reading →

Marc J. Dunkelman writes: * Rather than have a local nobleman keep watch over a district, as in England, the cohort of Americans living nearby took joint responsibility for their collective well – being . Many colonists had moved away … Continue reading →

01:00 NYT: People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves: People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-democracy.html20:00 New York: … Continue reading →

01:00 The Democrats needed every bit of their buffered identity to stay unmoved during last night’s Trump event, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14951216:00 Mark Halperin on Smerconish, https://www.smerconish.com/podcasts/the-smerconish-podcast/32:00 The r-word, https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-r-slur-inner-circle-and-outer39:00 Lenny Skutnik moment, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Skutnik41:00 Trump’s skillset matches Bill Clinton’s44:00 Trump doesn’t pussy foot … Continue reading →

I ask Grok: “Do the professions such as law lean to the political left?” Grok says: Yeah, professions like law do tend to lean left, at least in the U.S., but it’s not a monolith—context, location, and specific roles tweak … Continue reading →

David Sanger writes: “After five weeks in which President Trump made clear his determination to scrap America’s traditional sources of power — its alliances among like-minded democracies…” On what basis would you argue that America’s power stems from its aliances … Continue reading →

01:00 Fighting stigma against sex work01:30 “UNWATCHABLE” Sex Work Movie Anora Wins Best Picture | Oscars With Critical Drinker & Nerdrotic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghZj3oPknKI03:00 Commentary magazine: The Oscars, Ukraine, and Gaza Aid, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh8ae47jp4Q18:00 The voyage of the damned, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15918219:00 MS ST LOUIS … Continue reading →

04:00 Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization (2020), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15911420:00 Christopher Caldwell On Trump And Europe, https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/christopher-caldwell-on-trump-and24:00 NYP: Disaster in the Oval Office: Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to … Continue reading →