Monthly Archives: August 2023

Decoding Decoding The Gurus, Part Two

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Luke Ford

Part one. This decoding is a hard job because the podcast Decoding the Gurus (DTG) by academics Matt Browne and Chris Kavanagh is objectively impressive. Matt and Chris, however, seem unaware that they have their own subjective partisan left-wing hero … Continue reading →

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Decoding Liberal Fascism, Part Two (8-1-23)

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Latest indictment against Trump, https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/01/us/trump-indictment-jan-602:00 Public confidence in our institutions is steadily dropping, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/public-confidence-in-military-lowest-in-decades/03:00 Trump has a good chance to be the next president, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/could-trump-really-be-president-again/15:00 Fascism: The Career of a Concept, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshvHgcOnVg29:30 A painful episode of Cheers (S8E3) strikes … Continue reading →

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Holocaust and Genocide Denial: A Contextual Perspective

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2017 book: * While David Duke remains a committed Holocaust denier and anti-Semite,68 other prominent figures within white nationalism and ‘race realism’ either do not advocate denial or have openly queried its utility, despite … Continue reading →

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Taking Things On Faith

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Luke Ford

A secular Jewish friend emails me: I have known for several years that scholars believe the enslavement of Jews by the Egyptians, and the exodus and the wandering for forty years never happened. At that time I remember Prager among … Continue reading →

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The Buffered Identity

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Luke Ford

Philosopher Charles Taylor wrote in his 2007 book A Secular Age: A modern is feeling depressed, melancholy. He is told: it’s just your body chemistry, you’re hungry, or there is a hormone malfunctioning, or whatever. Straightaway, he feels relieved. He … Continue reading →

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