01:00 Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153758
04:00 Marty Baron on leading The Washington Post and covering President Trump , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGie7DGC5p0
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1:24:45 Rabbi Seligmann Baer Bamberger, the Wuerzburger Rav (Part 5) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkiddfUXEU0
Populism, Neoconservatism & Lessons in the Application of Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153654
WP : Trump disqualified from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot by state Supreme Court, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/19/trump-off-colorado-ballot/
Israel’s border failure, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/19/failure-at-the-fence-documentary/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/abbott-texas-border-law-arrests.html
Uvalde response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBofi_etkUo
Populism is popular but ineffective, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153654
New Yorker: How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker: The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also rising to the top, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153558
NYT: Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153538
Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=121464
The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153489
My Fourth Day On Adderall, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153449
Vouch nationalism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143499
Do American Conservatives Want Regime Change? And What Would That Look Like?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153355
Conservaphobia: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144168
Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia, Part Two, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144294
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