Who By Fire? (1-13-25)

01:00 Judaism’s Haunting Prayer/Unetaneh Tokef, https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/255977?lang=bi
08:00 New York: Los Angeles shouldn’t rebuild the same way, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/los-angeles-shouldnt-rebuild-the-same-way-after-wildfires.html
11:00 Bloomberg: These Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why
In Pacific Palisades and Malibu, some houses with fire-resistant designs remained standing amid neighborhoods of destruction. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-13/los-angeles-wildfires-why-these-homes-didn-t-burn
16:00 WSJ: How the Left Turned California Into a Paradise Lost: Gavin Newsom promised to ‘Trump-proof’ the Golden State. If only he’d fireproofed it instead. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-left-turned-california-into-a-paradise-lost-government-policy-wildfires-48b88d6a
20:35 TRUTH about the CA Wildfires, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbkS_CRypA
26:00 MEgyn Kelly: CNN’s Fact Checker Incorrectly Checks Facts About LA Wildfires and Reservoir, with Stu Burguiere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDEbjZVQt3Y
30:00 Lucy joins the show to discuss dating
49:00 Megyn Kelly: Gavin Newsom Tries to Salvage Political Career on Podcast in Wake of Wildfires, with Stu Burguiere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc1EOTMvEvs
54:00 New Yorker: Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?, When prehistoric predators abounded, the ability to perceive harm helped our ancestors survive. Some researchers wonder whether it fuels our greatest fights today. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/20/outraged-kurt-gray-book-review
1:05:00 Kurt Gray on Harm-Based Morality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbQ0ul9Jo4
1:14:30 Progressive failures, media failures, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/progressive-failures-media-failures/id1081967784?i=1000683795175
1:33:00 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality?utm_source=publication-search
1:38:00 Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on LA’s challenges
1:59:00 My high school friend Rob Stutzman talks to Mark Halperin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2aohL7Jy8
2:12:00 Column: A Democratic and Republican battled for Congress. They became unlikely friends, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149613
2:23:45 Morton Halperin, Mark Halperin’s lobbyist father, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Halperin
2:29:00 L.A. Leaders Can’t Hide Behind the Media Anymore, https://www.city-journal.org/article/la-wildfires-california-leadership-karen-bass-gavin-newsom
2:53:30 The Tragedy of California’s Wildfires with William Deverell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRqUCYbij0
3:18:00 Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31029686/

About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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