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- The Witness Who Lived – Rachel Scott, Cassie Bernall, Valeen Schnurr, and the Hero Systems Built on a Single Yes
- The Disc Kept Level
- An Agent of the United States
- Prove Me Wrong: The Hero System of Charlie Kirk
- Captain Comeback and the Denial of Death
- The Flex
- 316: A Hero System Reading of Tim Tebow
- The Audience of One
- The Hero System of Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson
- The Hero System of Rabbi Baruch Shlomo Eliyahu Cunin
- Yet to Come: The Hero System of Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
- The Gallery and the Wing: Rabbi Berish Goldenberg and the Hero System of the Beit Din
- 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
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
* The Most Socially Toxic Inconvenient Truths (1-18-26)
* The Luke Ford Genre (1-18-26)
* The Filkins Pivot: Legacy Prestige and the Fracturing of the Chattering Class (1-16-26)
* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
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* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
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* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
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Category Archives: America
The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (12-28-22)
00:45 The Game, https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-game/id1651876897?i=1000588298127 21:00 The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth:_An_Uncomfortable_Book_About_Relationships 1:09:00 The legal world is slowly accepting that age 18—or 21—is not a magical moment of “adult” brain maturity, https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/teen-brains-neuroscience-justice-law-supreme-court.html 2:16:00 DTG talk to Youtuber Coffeezilla, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/ … Continue reading
Should You Interview Nazis? (12-27-22)
00:50 Helen Lewis talks to DTG, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus 02:00 The New Gurus, https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/bbc-radio-4-the-new-gurus 14:30 WEHT to Stefan Molyneux? 19:00 Ron DeSantis 1:09:00 James Lindsey 1:21:00 NYP: Top school principal hides students’ academic awards in name of ‘equity’
What’s The Matter With Kansas? (2004)
This paternalistic book by Thomas Frank seems to be still the dominant way that liberals understand the working class voting Republican. BBC journalist Helen Lewis tells the Decoding the Gurus gang in a discussion that is exclusively on Patreon that … Continue reading
The Economist: Why cricket and America are made for each other
From The Economist: When the AirHogs stadium reopens in the spring it will be the first home of Major League Cricket (mlc). All the men were of Indian descent. They and their partners, who include the ceos of Microsoft and … Continue reading
Lionel Messi, Kanye West & Autistic Overlords (12-21-22)
02:00 Messi & Ye, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146549 11:00 Israel’s dumb culture, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146547 13:00 The Atlantic: WHY IS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE LIKE THIS?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146541 32:00 Marc B Shapiro: Rise of Reform and the Rabbinic Response, https://torahinmotion.org/tim-torah/the-rise-of-reform-and-the-rabbinic-response-part-11 55:00 A political discussion with my brother
Kanye West, Nick Fuentes & Hitler’s Willing Executioners (12-20-22)
Kanye West Missing – How Long Till He Backs Down? (12-18-22)
00:40 WEHT to Kanye West? 07:00 Richard Spencer seems to admit to alcoholism 10:00 Abductive reasoning 14:00 Elon Musk Is Unserious, Sociopathic—And Our Next President! 38:00 Alt Hype quits Cozy 44:00 TRS was the top political podcast on Apple 46:00 … Continue reading
Is Kanye West Winning? (12-11-22)
01:00 Spencer gives props to Kanye & Nick Fuentes – Killstream, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNaTgPwvYoM 14:00 The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning And Making Of English Football, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146471 15:45 Elliott Blatt joins 17:00 Elliott doesn’t like the French 28:00 Generation X’s time … Continue reading
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
Here are some highlights from this 2008 book by David Goldblatt: * The British historian Eric Hobsbawm encapsulated this oddity when he wrote ‘The twentieth century was the American century in every way but one: sport.’ This is not exactly … Continue reading
What is our political system?
In a December 7 Substack podcast, Richard Spencer says: “People who are enraged against the current system, those people who will bring it down, whether it is January 6 or Yeism or the aggressive stupidity on Tucker Carlson… These people … Continue reading
