02:00 Historian J. Otto Pohl joins the show, https://twitter.com/JOttoPohl1
09:00 The world runs on hierarchy, not democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153654
14:00 Elite discourse, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=154774
16:00 Knowledge is a conversation through time by the keepers of knowledge
24:00 Is Iran a rational actor?
32:00 Palestinians destabilized Jordan, Lebanon
37:00 Turkey’s attitude to the Iran-Israel conflict
38:15 The quality of life in Iraq now vs when Saddam Hussein reigned
40:00 WEHT to the Kurds?
42:30 Anti-Kurdism – wanting to deny Kurdish national sovereignty
44:30 Secularization trends among European Muslims
46:30 Prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians
54:50 Pohl: Lipstadt and the Denial of Soviet Ethnically Targeted Deportations and Killings, https://jottopohl.substack.com/p/lipstadt-and-the-denial-of-soviet
56:30 Pohl: Radical Right Reaction in Europe and the US in Comparative Perspective, https://jottopohl.substack.com/p/radical-right-reaction-in-europe
1:06:00 Lock up the super predators
1:16:00 Over-Taking Responsibility: What It Is & How It Holds Us Back, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7t7XIsILA
1:19:30 Jonathan Chait on the House Anti-Semitism Bill: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-house-antisemitism-bill-is-bad-for-the-jews.html
1:23:00 Pro-Israel arguments, https://twitter.com/SiaKordestani
1:39:00 60s Backlash, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/02/why-campus-chaos-should-give-democrats-ptsd-00155537
1:43:00 Biden’s Patience With Campus Protests Runs Out, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/bidens-patience-with-campus-protests-runs-out/678269/
1:48:00 Joe Biden loses the center, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/biden-is-losing-the-election-in-the-center-not-the-left.html
1:52:00 NYT: Before the Violence, U.C.L.A. Thought a Tolerant Approach Would Work, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/ucla-classes-protests.html
1:55:00 NYT: Trump Embraces Lawlessness, but in the Name of a Higher Law, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/opinion/trump-trial-2024-election.html
1:58:40 LGBTQ+ people in Huntington Beach fearful of what they say is a rise in hostility, https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-05-02/huntington-beach-lgbtq-community-fights-back
2:01:00 America’s Colleges Are Reaping What They Sowed, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/college-activism-hypocrisy/678262/
2:08:00 Men in caves wait for the apocalypse
2:18:00 Letterman: Norm MacDonald’s Bob Uecker Story
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