00:00 Amy Wax firestorm over bourgeois values, https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html
02:00 UPenn law professor tells Tucker Carlson that “Blacks” and other “non-Western” groups harbor “resentment and shame and envy”, https://www.inquirer.com/news/amy-wax-university-of-pennsylvania-law-school-20220411.html
12:00 The moral responsibilities of white males, https://nation.foxnews.com/watch/88a707094b42181e759c8730ea5a17b7/
53:50 Amy Wax has become more opposed to affirmative action
1:34:00 Selma is tired of being just a symbol — they want change, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/11/selma-struggles-economic-justice/
1:40:00 Four unsettling takeaways from the French election’s first round results, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/11/france-election-macron-le-pen-unsettling-takeaways/
1:54:00 Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143252
2:22:00 The Tradition of Post-Tradition, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143278
2:54:00 Historian Matthew Ghobrial joins, https://twitter.com/GhobrialMatthew
3:12:00 Amy Wax speaks of “white values”
3:18:00 Liberal values vs traditional values
3:24:00 Baron Joseph Cotto, https://mobile.twitter.com/josephfordcotto
3:31:00 Covid lockdowns
3:52:50 The morality of Covid
3:58:00 What is the West? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line
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