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- Gloves Off by Lowell Cohn
- NYT: The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
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- Catharine MacKinnon
- Who Rules: The Political Thought of Angelo Codevilla
- The Other Constitution: John Marini on Bureaucracy and the American Founding
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- Freedom and Authority: The Work of Christoph Bezemek
- The Not Boring Hero System
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
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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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Category Archives: America
Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (4-5-22)
From the 2003 book by Stephen Turner, Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts: * In Liberal Democracy 3.0, the slow transformation is from a politics of sovereign citizens to a politics of diffused experts, in which … Continue reading
The Flight 93 Election Reconsidered (4-3-22)
00:00 My intellectual excitement 03:00 The Flight 93 Election original essay by Michael Anton, https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/ 04:00 Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143207 07:45 Louis Theroux’s documentary on Nick Fuentes, Baked Alaska, Beardson, … Continue reading
Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Here are some highlights from this 2019 book: * Bannon functions as a performance-enhancing drug. The secret of his power over Trump, and over some large swath of the American people, has been his mythopoeic abilities, writing the script, setting … Continue reading
Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
Academic Christopher Capozzola writes in 2010: * One thing we know is that the word obligation was very much on their minds. During World War I, when Americans discussed their relationship to the state, they used terms such as duty, … Continue reading
Dr. Fordy Will See You Now: Be Quiet And Accept Reality (2-9-22)
00:00 Be quiet and reflect 07:00 Malone & McCullough: Gurometer Ratings, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/patreon-preview-malone-mccullough-gurometer 08:00 Gurometer, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oe-af4_OmzLJavktcSKGfP0wmxCX0ppP8n_Tvi9l_yc/edit#gid=0 18:50 Effective communication skills, https://www.audible.com/pd/Effective-Communication-Skills-Audiobook/B00D94332Q 29:30 Elliott Blatt joins 33:00 IBS attracted cocaine users 34:00 The excellence of Mister Metokur 39:00 How to deal with … Continue reading
Saturday Night Right: Joe Rogan’s apology, the rise and fall of internet blood sports (2-5-22)
00:00 I was sick all week 03:00 Joe Rogan says he’s sorry, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-episode-joe-rogan-sorry-not-sorry 09:00 Elliott Blatt joins the show 10:00 WSJ: The World Is Likely Sicker Than It Has Been in 100 Years, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-is-likely-sicker-than-it-has-been-in-100-years-11644057003 18:00 Omicron hit Southern California much … Continue reading
Living by principles in an unfair world (1-25-22)
Chad Walker comments: Luke says he wants the J6 protestors arrested, just like he wants leftist protesters arrested. That’s nice. The problem is in the real world leftists protestors get off Scott free while right wingers are destroyed. Luke ignores … Continue reading