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- The Hero System of Rabbi Samuel Ohana
- The Judge Who Vanishes
- The Hero System of Rabbi Gershon Bess
- Out of Town That Day: Yonah Bookstein, Welcome, and the Dead
- The Hero System of Rabbi Chaim Mentz
- Counting in Ones
- Martha Nussbaum
- Stein Ringen and the Question of Good Government
- ‘Improving on Democracy’
- Darren Beattie and the Turn of Trumpism
- Death’s Bookkeeper: Gregory Cochran’s Hero System
- The Bowl of Light: Heather Mac Donald’s Hero System
- The Man Who Went There: George Packer’s Hero System
- The Witnessed Life: A Hero System for Italian Sociologist Gabriella Turnaturi
- Henty’s Catechism: The Hero System of the Adventure Novel
- Help Me Understand: Ezra Klein and the Hero System of Comprehension
- The Fair Witness: Evan Osnos and the Hero System of the Even Voice
- The Hero System of UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
- The Hero System of WSJ Editor Emma Tucker
- Report: Rabbi Eliyahu Haimof, Accused in Lawsuit of Sexually and Physically Abusing Child, Threatens ZA’AKAH with Lawsuit, Then with Din Torah
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
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* The Luke Ford Genre (1-18-26)
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* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
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* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
* You Are An Important Soldier In A Great War (9-7-25)
* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
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Category Archives: America
Politico: The Media Has Got Ron DeSantis Nailed
Jack Shafer writes: There’s another recent candidate who was dressed by the press in unflattering garb who overcame the representation to win the presidency: Donald Trump. According to a thousand news bulletins, Trump was a narcissistic bully, a misogynist, a … Continue reading
‘Yes, We Should Call Them Imperialists’
Paul Gottfried wrote July 19, 2018: Neoconservatives like Max Boot are fooling themselves if they think imposing ‘values’ on the rest of the world isn’t a matter of empire. Recently while reading a book by an Israeli scholar named Yoram … Continue reading
The Art Of Loving (5-23-23)
01:00 Love is the foundation of my politics and morality 16:00 31 practices of love, Tom McGee 21:00 Dennis Prager Back from Europe 45:30 Online censorship, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/interview-with-renee-diresta-online-ecosystems-disinformation-censorship-debates 47:45 Video: Renée DiResta (Stanford Internet Observatory): Disinformation & How To Combat It … Continue reading
Please Don’t Talk About Hate Facts (5-21-23)
01:00 I felt so free before I pressed start to stream on OBS 04:00 Calming down through connection 07:00 LAT: 12-year-old to be youngest to graduate from Fullerton College with five degrees, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-20/12-year-old-to-be-youngest-to-graduate-from-fullerton-college-with-five-degrees 09:00 Between the Alps and a Hard … Continue reading
The Meaning Crisis Drives Extreme Politics (5-18-23)
My Solution To The Crime & Homelessness Crisis (5-18-23)
01:00 My Solution To The Crime & Homelessness Crisis 04:00 Seductive belief bubbles, https://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/indexp2.html 16:00 Elliott Blatt joins 19:00 Exhaustion 48:30 Decoding the Gurus, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/christopher-hitchens-
Dave Rubin’s Rules For Life (5-16-23)
01:00 All About Dave Rubin, https://quillette.com/2022/12/15/all-about-dave/ 03:00 Which Guru Does Dennis Prager Most Resemble?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=147856 14:20 YT: Commercial Real Estate in San Francisco Just Keeps Getting Worse 27:20 Power grid in trouble, https://lukeford.net/blog/ 48:00 Adam Curtis, Dennis Prager and the … Continue reading
Putting The Con In Conservative (5-14-23)
01:00 WSJ: Before His Killing, Tech Executive Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs 12:30 Hispanic Nazis 15:00 Why Are Right-Wing Radio Hosts Still Being Such Jerks About COVID? 32:00 2000 Mules REVIEW – A Dramatic but … Continue reading
What A Time For A Town Hall! Trump Goes On CNN! (5-10-23)
02:00 Rich Lowry: Trump can’t lose, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/10/trump-legal-scandals-2024-00096198?cid=apn 04:45 Tucker’s back, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/hes-back-but-not-for-long 17:00 The online world can supplement or substitute for real life 18:30 Step 3, Part 2, with Allen Berger and Mary Gordon, https://youtu.be/ROGX_Jhv_FU?t=311 24:30 Step 4, Part 1, with … Continue reading
Tucker Teams Up With Elon (5-9-23)
01:00 Axios: Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud, contract breach, https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/tucker-carlson-fox-news-letter-fraud 04:00 BP: TUCKER RETURNS: New Show On TWITTER As He SUES Fox News 09:00 Megyn Kelly: Leaked Tucker and DeSantis Videos 16:50 Dooovid joins 34:00 My Rules For Life, … Continue reading
