Category Archives: America

Financial Times: The surprising success of multi-ethnic cities (2-4-24)

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15411206:00 The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15422310:00 Dannagal Goldthwaite Young on identity and misinformation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmbBEb14SDk59:40 The Women of the … Continue reading →

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The Women of the Far Right (Swimsuit Edition) (1-28-24)

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Three U.S. soldiers killed in Jordan20:40 How Europe’s growing far-right populism will affect Ukraine and the war | Ivan Rogers25:00 Could Israel Cost Biden the Election?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n7F88DQHlQ47:00 The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization, … Continue reading →

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Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Luke Ford

Political scientist Dannagal Goldthwaite Young writes in this 2019 book: * In their 2014 book The Outrage Industry, Jeffrey Berry and Sarah Sobieraj chronicle the growth of a new genre of political programming through the 2000s; programming that places a … Continue reading →

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Decoding Journalism, Decoding Winners From Losers (1-17-24)

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 New Yorker: How Ten Middle East Conflicts Are Converging Into One Big War, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-ten-middle-east-conflicts-are-converging-into-one-big-war10:00 Democrats Are Preparing For Donald Trump To Be President Again, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-KxZ8gbp2Y17:00 Amy Wax talks with Richard Hanania, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/amy-wax-versus-the-midwit-gynocrats19:00 Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, … Continue reading →

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Assume Nothing: Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Luke Ford

Here are some excerpts from this 2023 book by the late Edward Jay Epstein: * Indeed, it was from [Gerald Ford] that I first heard the term “political truth,” a concept in which facts may be tempered to fit political … Continue reading →

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