Monthly Archives: June 2020

Rod Dreher: Language, Memory, & Soft Totalitarianism

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Luke Ford

Rod writes: “A professor pointed out to me today that one theme of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that’s becoming quite relevant today is how the most oppressive regime of control does not apply to the proles, but to members of the … Continue reading →

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Why Do People Over-Schedule?

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Luke Ford

I notice that many people have a compulsion to be frantically busy. What do they get out of overscheduling themselves? * It enables them to detach from reality and to live in fantasy. They can imagine that they are supermen, … Continue reading →

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Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2007 book: * Carl von Clausewitz’s On War is the prism through which we have come to look at war. Certainly within Europe, and to an increasing extent outside as well, military commentators have … Continue reading →

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Prager: The Left Couldn’t Care Less About Blacks

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Luke Ford

Dennis has been off the air for a few days due to back pain. He writes: If the left cared about blacks, leftists would work to raise blacks to universal academic standards, not lower and abolish standards as they have … Continue reading →

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Comments At Steve Sailer

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Luke Ford

Link: * Jacob Frey gave a TV interview in which he literally said the death of Floyd was murder. Then he gave a lengthy talk at a press conference in which he repeatedly seemed about to burst into tears about … Continue reading →

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