Monthly Archives: April 2021

Failure and the American Dream

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Seymour Krim (1922-1989) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Krim 02:00 Krimstatic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVZJyJkmag0 04:00 “For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business” by Seymour Krim, https://archive.org/details/artofpersonaless0000unse_e7g9/page/578/mode/1up 1:00:20 Dr. David Starkey: I Was Cancelled but I Won’t be Silenced for Speaking Objective Truth, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrDOkYGd5d8 00:00 … Continue reading →

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When novels still mattered (4-17-21)

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Luke Ford

Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138437 Where Do Journalists Come From? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=137084 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Krim The American Novel Made Us https://www.cwanderson.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Tom-Wolfe-Gives-an-Eyewitness-Report-of-the-Birth-of-The-New-Journalism-New-York-Magazine.pdf

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American Insurrection (4-16-21)

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 PBS Frontline: American Insurrection, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/american-insurrection/ 03:00 Dooovid joins 05:00 Why did Tucker Carlson talk about Israeli immigration policy? What you need to know about the white supremacist ‘open borders for Israel’ meme. https://www.jta.org/2021/04/16/united-states/why-did-tucker-carlson-talk-about-israeli-immigration-policy-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-white-supremacist-open-borders-for-israel-meme 15:00 Tucker Carlson: The truth about … Continue reading →

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A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods (4-15-21)

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Caolan Robertson: Walking Away from Extremism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU7k91OxRFw 02:00 Feeding Hate With Video: A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/technology/alt-right-youtube-algorithm.html 33:00 Victor Davis Hanson: Lots of us are tired of the virtue-signaling 38:00 Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite … Continue reading →

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The Power Of Flannery O’Connor

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Luke Ford

Frederick Crews writes: O’Connor had no cause to disprize university writing programs, for she herself, despite the marked individuality of her work, was the first prominent American author to have been significantly shaped by one. Scholars who examine her early … Continue reading →

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