Category Archives: America

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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Are you feeling demoralized by the psy-ops? (1-14-24)

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Danielle Allen: Justice By Means of Democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15392605:00 Richard Spencer Space on anonymity and dissident politics, https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/174631837270564895328:00 NYT: How College-Educated Republicans Learned to Love Trump Again, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/us/politics/trump-college-educated-voters.html 38:00 Building the greatest stereo and destroying your family in the process, … Continue reading →

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The Vlogosphere and its Enemies (1-7-24)

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Trump is an American representative of the populist nationalist surge, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/opinion/trump-election-2024.html03:00 Designated Survivor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_Survivor_(TV_series)05:00 NYTimes podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aubBW1ZOwc33:00 The blogosphere and its enemies: the case of oophorectomy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14022756:00 Doctors performs hundreds of unnecessary surgeries, https://magazine.atavist.com/damages-javaid-perwaiz-virginia-obgyn-surgeries-lawsuit/59:00 Using women’s bodies to get … Continue reading →

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How Covid Explains My Worldview (1-1-24)

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Different strategies have differing effectiveness in different situations10:30 Stop saying “we need to build alternative institutions”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyq126kZMI23:00 Life is a Dinner Table, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSawhpPzOFs42:20 People with Bigger Brains are More Intelligent45:00 Immigrants with less than a bachelor’s degree are a … Continue reading →

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Looking For Signs Of Victory In Gaza (12-31-23)

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 The Guardian: As Gaza death toll mounts, Israelis look in vain for any sign of victory, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15383105:30 Do we need to talk about group differences, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/amy-wax-versus-the-midwit-gynocrats07:30 Nathan Cofnas influences Amy Waxhttps://twitter.com/MillennialWoes/status/174010090356543127708:00 Amy Wax: The Woke and the Asleep: Hanania’s … Continue reading →

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Democracy Dies In Darkness (12-27-23)

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15375804:00 Marty Baron on leading The Washington Post and covering President Trump , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGie7DGC5p022:00 Stephen J James joins, https://twitter.com/MuskMaximalist36:20 The falling out between Charles Johnson and Richard Spencer42:00 Black-pilled freaks1:24:45 … Continue reading →

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How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Luke Ford

John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato write in this 2023 book: * Contrary to what many people think, we cannot equate rationality with success and nonrationality with failure. Rationality is not about outcomes. Rational actors often fail to achieve their … Continue reading →

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The US Is Losing – Is Israel Winning? (12-24-23)

Posted on December 24, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Why America is losing04:00 Media links Trump with Nazism13:00 Colorado Supreme Court rules Trump ineligible 18:00 WSJ: Biden Convinced Netanyahu to Halt a Pre-Emptive Strike Against Hezbollah, https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/how-biden-averted-a-second-front-by-convincing-israel-not-to-attack-hezbollah-on-oct-11-e14a0a3b?mod=hp_lead_pos220:40 Is Israel winning? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4yt3r3Gsbk25:50 The Problem of Intelligence – IQ and … Continue reading →

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