00:00 The moral lens on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
03:00 Colin Liddell joins, https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/2022/02/putin-has-lost.html
05:00 Why does the dissident right revere Putin?
07:00 Broad revulsion at Putin
10:00 Putin is not Hitler
12:00 The late life crisis
13:00 The revival of NATO
18:40 The end of Putin?
24:00 Is the invasion the West’s fault?
26:00 Will Europe get serious about meeting its energy needs?
28:45 Putin’s de-nazification invasion
33:00 The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142846
43:30 Boris Johnson seems more secure as PM
45:00 America First
46:00 Nick Fuentes
48:45 French commentator Eric Zemmour runs for president
50:00 Valérie Pécresse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rie_P%C3%A9cresse
1:05:00 Elliott Blatt joins
1:19:30 The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History speech by Samuel Moyn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtFJZB27M8
1:24:00 The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142828
1:26:00 The Dark World of Megachurches, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfKpAWkgJY
1:47:30 Why we were wrong about Ukraine | Frederick Kagan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wC6VfswJtQ
1:51:00 Princeton experts discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYHzDDs93A
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