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Monthly Archives: January 2023
The Ron DeSantis Way (1-8-23)
01:00 When the incoherent response is the best 06:00 The brotherhood of J. Edgar Hoover, https://www.npr.org/2022/11/22/1138189651/biography-j-edgar-hoover-gman-beverly-gage-fbi 08:00 Social networks don’t appreciate platform manipulation 11:45 The Ron DeSantis way, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-05/ron-desantis-s-war-on-woke-culture-could-pave-his-way-to-presidency This is “the place where the sacrament of Brotherhood is administered, … Continue reading
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Nathan Cofnas: Still No Evidence for a Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy (1-8-23)
02:00 The incoherent response is frequently the most coherent because the world is more complicated than we can understand 39:00 Accusations of anti-semitism 44:00 Cofnas Magnum Opus on the JQ
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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close (2020)
Here are some highlights from this book: * In the late 18th and 19th centuries, when it became common to marry for love, middle-class people began worrying that the couple would have no reason to stay married if their affections … Continue reading
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Friendship: A History (2014)
Here are some highlights from this book: * The second half of the twentieth century saw the triumph of the particular form of intimate and reciprocal friendship traced in the preceding chapter. In Western societies, and especially in the individualized … Continue reading
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How do you create charisma?
01:20 While I was meditating, I missed out on connecting 06:00 Kevin McCarthy can’t get up as House speaker 18:00 Philosopher Stephen Turner Publishes A Memoir: Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146710 20:00 Another theory on charisma: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139572 … Continue reading
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