Monthly Archives: December 2020

Politics As Pose, Compulsion & Catharsis (12-28-20)

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Luke Ford

03:00 Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 04:00 The Wasteland by TS Eliot, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoEHySQ9Gmo 18:00 Literary modernism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndfxeQSCgM0 21:00 Mother, 29, given TWO free homes worth $409K by ‘Nashville bomber’, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9090067/PICTURED-Mother-29-given-TWO-free-homes-worth-409K-Nashville-bomber.html 24:00 Richard Spencer’s analysis of … Continue reading →

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Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope (12-27-20)

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Luke Ford

00:00 Overall reaction to book 02:00 Loneliness 1:24:00 Traffic 1:29:00 Nature 1:39:00 Driving for Uber 1:44:00 How do you interact with the abominables? 1:46:00 When people scorn us for our politics My guest is Richard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE0dJw8SfA_PUNmyu_1ywdA

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Scott Adams Says Narcissism Is Junk Science (12-27-20)

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Luke Ford

00:00 Scott Adams on NPD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxfgru6D3UE 07:00 The map is not the territory 50:00 The Wasteland, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoEHySQ9Gmo 1:05:00 Colin Liddell joins to discuss Scott Adams, https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/ 1:08:00 Bloggers/Vloggers chasing applause, https://trad-news.blogspot.com/ 1:10:00 Luke batters his audience 1:18:00 Greg Johnson of … Continue reading →

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Jews & Christmas (12-26-20)

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Luke Ford

I’m accidentally muted for the first two minutes. 02:00 The war on Christmas, http://www.vdare.com/articles/war-against-christmas-2005-competition-iii-christmas-jews-de-assimilation-and-decline 11:00 Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 19:00 WASP A.R. Gurney’s play Love Letters, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136100 21:00 T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” documentary … Continue reading →

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Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 1998 book by Susanne Klingenstein: * Harvard is the biggest thing in town…Harvard is an octopus sprawled all over Cambridge with tentacles reaching deep into Boston… Once you are inside…the Harvard world…is very small, … Continue reading →

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