Daily Archives: June 29, 2021

The New Power Elite (6-29-21)

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics, and Greed, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140693 03:00 Milo’s conversation with Roosh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m0t1d8sh9w 06:00 The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics and Greed, https://www.amazon.com/New-Power-Elite-Inequality-Sociology/dp/1783087870 15:00 Milo sounds less gay 16:00 When Experts Are Wrong, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140707 18:00 Expert Failure … Continue reading →

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Depoliticizing Power

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Luke Ford

Stephen Turner wrote in 1989: Carl Schmitt’s renovated Hobbesianism, with its insistence on the antithesis between authority and truth contained in the Hobbist slogan auctoritas, non veritas facit legem, (law is decided by authority, not by truth) provides the dialectical … Continue reading →

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When Experts Are Wrong

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Luke Ford

Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan said: “…(ADHD) is an invention. Every child who’s not doing well in school is sent to see a pediatrician, and the pediatrician says: “It’s ADHD; here’s Ritalin.” In fact, 90 percent of these 5.4 million (ADHD-diagnosed) … Continue reading →

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The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics, and Greed

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Luke Ford

Stephen Turner reviews this 2018 book: * There is a well-established folk theory about elites, shared, more or less, by the elites and the non-elite. Here is a quotation of Larry Summers, a member of the elite by any criteria: … Continue reading →

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Life After Academia With Historian Lisa Munro (6-28-21)

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Historian Lisa Munro, https://www.lisamunro.net/blog-1/2018/7/1/failures-of-imagination-post-phd-edition 01:00 Leaving Academia: Loss Grief and Healing, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140408 04:30 Lisa is an adoptee, https://twitter.com/llmunro 08:30 Lisa was 38 before she knew her biological parents 22:00 Education promotes conformism 27:00 Education as indoctrination 28:20 Education fads … Continue reading →

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