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- An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
- Tournier on Cinema Paradiso and Desmond Ford
- The Self-Hating Jew
- The Alliance Theory in the Academy
- Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
- Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
- What is a ‘Received Idea’?
- Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
- Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
- Marine Le Pen
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- Nigel Farage
- Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
- Walker Connor (1926-2017)
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* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
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* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
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Category Archives: Covid
Decoding The Lab Leak (6-4-24)
01:00 Three anecdotes07:00 Unlike the fall of 2000, Republican legal elites are lined up behind Trump13:20 Steve Sailer says this is his best interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fitLTIwao3Y16:20 Women questioning their sexuality, https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/am-i-ok-review-dakota-johnson-tig-notaro-max-7ec20ba2?mod=arts-culture_lead_pos218:30 Joe Biden’s border crackdown29:00 Paul Gottfried talks to Joseph Cotto … Continue reading
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Where this show is better than the New York Times (4-16-24)
The New York Times and the rest of the elite media consistently put out more compelling articles than I do, but in their abundance of production, they often create more confusion than clarity. Why is this? Does it have something … Continue reading
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How Covid Explains My Worldview (1-1-24)
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
MedPage: What You Need to Know About That ‘Johns Hopkins’ Lockdown Study
From Medpage.com: A paper being touted as the “Johns Hopkins study” that suggested lockdowns didn’t reduce COVID deaths has serious flaws and is being misinterpreted, experts said. Fox News has charged that there’s been a “full-on media blackout” of the … Continue reading
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Conservatism & Liberalism & Covid (6-25-23)
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The Wannabe Dictator In The White House (6-15-23)
01:00 Structure not personality runs the world 02:00 Everybody wants to rule the world 05:00 I’ve got a wanna dictator in my pants 10:45 Tucker Carlson on the wannabe dictator in the White House, https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson 19:00 Andrew Sullivan: Nicholas Wade … Continue reading
Epistemic Sabotage
People like Dennis Prager, in the words of Decoding The Gurus, "produce ersatz wisdom: a corrupt epistemics that creates the appearance of useful knowledge, but has none of the substance. …the guru is highly motivated to undertake epistemic sabotage; to … Continue reading
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NYMAG: Where Is the Republican Soul-searching for Getting COVID Wrong? Fauci is at least answering some hard questions.
Jonathan Chait writes May 2, 2023: Conservatives got COVID extremely wrong. Where is the accountability? Where is the course correction? The answer is that they don’t exist, because the conservative movement is incapable of engaging in them… Donald Trump threatened … Continue reading
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Why are we united on Ukraine but divided on Covid? (3-13-22)
00:00 Our need for good & evil stories 04:30 It’s the 21st Century, dude! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1WL2VJOn2A 14:00 Why I quit gaming… #grindreel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7tiuyBeXhc 24:40 Michael Beckley on China, Ukraine, Russia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoWYqhp3EVA 32:00 The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the … Continue reading
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‘Of pathogens and party lines: Social conservatism positively associates with COVID-19 precautions among U.S. Democrats but not Republicans’
Here’s a summary of a June 29, 2021 study: Social liberals tend to be less pathogen-avoidant than social conservatives, a pattern consistent with a model wherein ideological differences stem from differences in threat reactivity. Here we investigate if and how … Continue reading
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