Daily Archives: August 6, 2023

NYP: Co-founders of ‘compassionate’ LA law firm resign after vile, sexist emails exposed

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Luke Ford

I suspect the overall moral quality of these two men’s lives is no worse than their peers. They just like to blow off steam. Everybody says horrible things in private. This is no big deal. These two men were stupid … Continue reading →

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Where Do You Get Your Meaning?

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Luke Ford

Most people are built to get most of their meaning in life from their family, and they don’t need additional sources of meaning beyond that. For a minority of people, however, we get most of our meaning in life from … Continue reading →

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Decoding Richard Hanania and the latest Trump Indictment (8-6-23)

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 World Cup of women’s soccer03:00 Seeking a small life10:00 Decoding Trump’s J6 Indictment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdR47Qrr8Ko22:00 HP: Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14967228:00 WSJ: He Thought He Saw Wrongdoing on Wall Street. It Took … Continue reading →

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HP: Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Luke Ford

I don’t know how Richard Hanania can emerge unscathed from this, but he seems tough enough to keep going the best he can. He’s one of my ten favorite public intellectuals (along with people like Christopher Caldwell, Steve Sailer, Nathan … Continue reading →

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Tablet: The Obama Factor: A Q&A with historian David Garrow

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Luke Ford

David Samuels begins with an anecdote from David Garrow’s Obama biography Rising Star, the only book I’ve read about the former president: At the time that Obama and Sheila visited the Spertus Institute, Chicago politics was being roiled by a … Continue reading →

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