Monthly Archives: April 2021

The Trauma Trap

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Luke Ford

Frederick Crews writes for the New York Review of Books in 2004: In the 1980s, as McNally relates, day care workers risked prosecution and imprisonment on the coerced testimony of bewildered and intimidated three-year-olds who were prodded to “remember” nonexistent … Continue reading →

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Tom Wolfe – Stalking The Billion-Footed Beast

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 What do novels do better than movies/TV? 02:00 Why Authors Are Important: Tom Wolfe On His Favorite Books, Writing, Art, Style (1996), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IVA_iVofo 05:00 Tom Wolfe on realist fiction, https://harpers.org/archive/1989/11/stalking-the-billion-footed-beast/ 27:00 From 2006: Writer Tom Wolfe on journalism and … Continue reading →

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Bellow: A Biography

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Luke Ford

James Atlas writes in 2000: * A sickly child, afflicted with respiratory ailments, he was his mother’s favorite; she treated him like an invalid. * It was in temperament that Bellow diverged from the family line. He was the designated … Continue reading →

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Extremism In US Military

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 The Military Says It’s Confronting Extremism. A Prominent White Nationalist Just Finished Boot Camp., https://www.huffpost.com/entry/extremists-military-shawn-mccaffrey-white-nationalist_n_60706a94c5b634fd437d8e09 02:00 The Art of Debate w Jim Goad, Nick Fuentes, Baked Alaska, Irony Bros, https://rumble.com/vefngp-the-art-of-debate-w-jim-goad-nick-fuentes-baked-alaska-irony-bros.html 28:00 The Jewish Question, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Question 48:00 Our 5 year … Continue reading →

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Middlemarch and Underearning II (4-11-21)

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 The need for an exciting life 10:00 Religion and happiness 1:00:00 What makes a marriage work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch

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