Monthly Archives: March 2022

Will Smith, Chris Rock and the downward spiral of the dissidents (3-28-22)

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In Defense Of History

Richard Evans writes in this 1999 book: * Virtually all historians, for example, assumed that the nation-state was the primary object of historical study. The emerging historical profession was dominated by the view that the historian’s task lay principally in … Continue reading

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One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway – and Its Aftermath

Here are some highlights from this 2015 book: * We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our … Continue reading

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Russia’s Fight To The Death In Ukraine (3-27-22)

00:00 Russia’s war to the death, https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1507819604105592832 15:00 Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine, https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/26/biden-says-putin-cannot-remain-in-power-in-sweeping-speech-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine.html 30:40 That’s What Xi (Jinping) Said, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alR-hlz7ueU 38:00 What a Single Metric Tells Us About the … Continue reading

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Loving Putin Is The New Holocaust Denial (3-21-22)

00:00 Holocaust denial has long been the most socially deviant opinion you could offer 01:00 Dooovid joins the show 03:00 When you moralize the news, the IQ of the conversation goes down 05:00 The dominant narrative about the war in … Continue reading

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