01:00 Trump’s plan for Gaza
08:00 How morality is used against Israel
13:30 Under Trump we have more free speech
15:00 Affirmative action
23:00 Why Michael Kochin eschews jargon
25:00 Paying obeisance to the tiny group of people who decide what knowledge is
31:00 “It is not possible to articulate common experience in politically acceptable language.”
39:00 Collegiality among professionals
45:00 Does Israel have a higher quality of life than America?
51:00 Jacob Taubes: The Man Who Made Thinking Erotic, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/books/review/professor-of-apocalypse-jerry-z-muller.html
53:00 Accreditation
57:00 The right-winger who wants a career in academia
58:00 Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? by Harry Lewis, https://www.amazon.com/Excellence-Without-Soul-Harry-Lewis/dp/1586485016
1:06:00 Nathan Cofnas’s critique of woke
1:08:00 Critiquing women in law enforcement, fire fighting, and the military
1:12:00 Prof. Thomas Powers’ recent book on civil rights politics deemed ‘the definitive study, https://www.carthage.edu/live/news/51009-prof-thomas-powers-recent-book-on-civil-rights
1:14:00 Israel judicial reform, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform
1:22:00 Donald Trump is a race realist
1:23:30 Steve Sailer
1:24:34 Leo Strauss
1:30:00 Paleocons vs Straussians
1:51:00 Gadi Taub, https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/israel-update
1:52:00 Caroline Glick, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Glick
1:54:00 Meir Kahane, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane
1:50:00 United States Semiquincentennial, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Semiquincentennial
2:02:00 Historicism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism
2:04:00 Walther Rathenau, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Rathenau
2:05:00 Exodus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus
2:08:00 Who wrote the Torah? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah
2:11:00 Nehemia Gordon, https://carm.org/preachers-and-teachers/nehemia-gordon/
https://x.com/mskochin
https://telaviv.academia.edu/MichaelKochin
https://americanmind.org/salvo/reforming-the-national-security-state/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-crisis-of-the-managerial-state/
An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States, https://www.amazon.com/Independent-Empire-Diplomacy-Making-United-ebook/dp/B082T3MYJD/
Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art, https://www.amazon.com/Five-Chapters-Rhetoric-Character-Nothing-ebook/dp/B017EUAR4C/
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