Monthly Archives: December 2020

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

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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Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought

Peter E. Gordon reviews this 2003 book by UCLA professor David N. Myers: * Historicism, as Meinecke and Troeltsch meant it, was born as a specifically German romantic reaction against the Enlightenment’s idea of a single, universal human nature. The … Continue reading

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Under Pressure

I'm turning the tide on the white death by buying gimbal. My audience now needs less dramamine for my stroll streams and as a result there have been fewer overdoses. https://t.co/0PVpMJ4yjB — (((Luke Ford))) (@lukeford) December 25, 2020 Noble Lies … Continue reading

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The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

Here are some excerpts from this 2019 book: * GOSSIP and reputation are core processes in all human societies. Consequently, humans invest a great amount of effort to keep track of others’ reputation and to effectively manage their own. This … Continue reading

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The Rise & Fall Of Jordan Peterson (12-24-20)

00:00 The Rise of Jordan Peterson (2019) 12:20 Jordan on the Jews 21:00 Jordan’s health problems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#Health_problems 1:12:40 Ed Dutton and Richard Spencer’s podcast, https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-mcspencer-group 1:14:00 IQ Denial 1:26:00 Geographic chauvinism, Los Angeles vs San Francisco 1:38:00 The Ripper documentary, … Continue reading

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