February 27, 2025 The Left Loses Its Lock On America’s Institutions (2-27-25) Luke Ford No sacred cows.

The Left Loses Its Lock On America’s Institutions (2-27-25)

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Luke Ford

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Political Scientist Michael S. Kochin On The Age Of Trump (2-26-25)

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Luke Ford

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An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States (2020)

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Luke Ford

Michael Kochin and Michael Taylor write:

* You are alone. You are exhausted, bruised and battered. You have no real friends and you are surrounded by enemies. You have no money to pay your bills, and you have scarcely the means to defend yourself. You have no sure way to put your house in order, but you have built this house in a vast wilderness of mountains, rivers, forests, jungle, and desert. This is no country for old men, no country for young republics. In 1781, at the moment of the British surrender at Yorktown, this was the situation of the United States of America. Victory in the Revolutionary War did not bring glory—freedom did not mean safety. One false step and this ambitious experiment in republican government would fail forever. So just how, not even fifty years later, had the United States become the undisputed master of North America and the self-proclaimed guardian of the Western Hemisphere?
The transformation of a string of rebellious colonies along the eastern seaboard into a military superpower is the most remarkable story of modern political history. Yet this rapid ascension was not the manifest destiny of the United States—there was nothing naturally ‘great’ about the new republic. Time and again, the United States came close
to disaster. What if Benjamin Franklin had not brought the French into the Revolutionary War? What if the Federalists had not forced through a constitution that could bind thirteen states into the Union? What if ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne had started a war with the British in Ohio in 1794? Or if the British had re-taken New Orleans in 1815?
The Founding Fathers had no safety net. They had no reputation either, for Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and Jefferson played only supporting roles on the global stage. At every turn, they were faced with problems that spelled life or death for the United States. Somehow, the Americans got it right. How did they do it? They asked the right questions about foreign affairs, the military, taxes, and trade. With skill, wisdom, experience, and no little luck, they found the right answers too.
* the United States sought to avoid open war with the British, French, and Spanish.
* the transformation of thirteen British colonies into the United States of America, and then into one of the great powers of the world, is the most remarkable story in modern political history.
* “We have not Men fit for the Times,” wrote John Adams [in 1776]. “We are deficient in Genius, in Education, in Travel, in Fortune—in every Thing. I feel unutterable Anxiety.” Nevertheless, despite Adams’s pessimism, these “United States of America”—a term first coined by Jefferson in June 1776—quickly became what George III feared, “an independent empire.” By 1826, after only five decades of independence, the American Union had become the imperial master of much of North America and the self-proclaimed guardian
of the Western Hemisphere.
Diplomacy and war were essential to the creation and the survival of the United States. It was only with foreign assistance that the Revolutionary War was won. Even when independence was secured in 1783 by the Treaty of Paris, the new republic was surrounded by European colonies and hostile forces. To the north, smarting from their recent defeat, were the British in Canada. To the south, governing the Gulf of Mexico, was Spanish Florida. To the west were Native American tribes and Spanish Louisiana, which controlled the vital conduit of the Mississippi and the port of New Orleans.
* the American economy had been designed to supply the British Empire. American diplomats urgently needed to negotiate better access to British markets, to make deals with other European nations, and even to arrange the protection of American shipping from the pirates of the West Indies and North Africa.
* If the fifteenth century belonged to the Portuguese and the sixteenth to the Spanish, and if the seventeenth century was defined by la gloire of the Sun King, Louis XIV, it was in the long eighteenth century that Great Britain emerged as a global force.
* The Stamp Act also provoked the rancor of a more sophisticated constituency. By taxing printed materials such as newspapers and legal documents, it directly affected the journalists and lawyers who were best placed to articulate colonial discontent. One such lawyer was John Adams, a bustling attorney in the provincial town of Braintree, Massachusetts.
* In these, the early years of the Revolutionary War, the American situation was perilous. Foreign aid was needed desperately, but the two most likely Samaritans were the French and the Spanish, whom the Americans, due to their British history, had long regarded as natural enemies. Even with the cord to London cut, the Protestant, republican Americans still feared and hated the Catholic absolutism of these European monarchies.

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Straight Discrimination Case Heads To US Supreme Court (2-26-25)

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Luke Ford

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/trump-gaza-ai-video-israel-hamas-war
https://www.reuters.com/legal/straight-womans-reverse-discrimination-case-goes-us-supreme-court-2025-02-26/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/25/ohio-discrimination-marlean-ames-supreme-court/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scotus-hear-straight-womans-discrimination-case-could-reshape-employment-law
https://www.thefp.com/p/christopher-caldwell-dei-trump-executive-order
Christopher Caldwell writes:

Now Trump has done what Reagan would not. His repeal came via three executive orders, two issued on Inauguration Day. The first overturned dozens of Biden decrees, including the “Advancing Racial Equity” executive order signed in the first hours of his presidency in 2021. The second ended all initiatives, offices, contracts, and employees connected to DEI, which Trump referred to as “illegal and immoral discrimination programs.”
The decisive blow came the following day. In an order called “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” Trump repealed a variety of executive orders, including 11246, and explicitly barred the OFCCP from enforcing affirmative action. And his Office of Personnel Management followed through on the previous day’s business, ordering that all DEI federal employees be sent home, all DEI federal contracts be terminated, and all efforts to pursue federal DEI programs under another name be rooted out.
RIP affirmative action.
But that is only part of the story. A curious element of Trump’s third executive order is its invocation of the president’s “solemn duty” to enforce “longstanding Federal civil-rights laws,” mentioning the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is not a concession. It’s a threat.
While the Civil Rights Act mentioned “affirmative action” it attached no specific meaning to the term, and the law was resolutely color-blind. Affirmative action programs, with their differing treatment of races, are in tension with it. DEI programs, many of which scapegoat white people, are even more so. It is Trump’s assertion that DEI programs “violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws.” Trump is doing more than reforming the public sector. He is signaling to the private sector that certain kinds of programs are liable to prosecution, even asking each federal agency to name up to nine large private-sector organizations that might be engaged in discrimination.

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Decoding Trump’s World (2-25-25)

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 FA: The World Trump Wants, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/world-trump-wants-michael-kimmage
17:00 The Deep State, rogue intelligence officers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwDDj-9UtY0
25:00 NYT: The Election Just Ended and We Already Have a New Michael Wolff Book
In “All or Nothing,” the Trump biographer shows that he is his favorite subject’s perfect twin., https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/books/review/all-or-nothing-michael-wolff.html
29:00 Where’s the coverage of Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles nor any process stories?
32:15 What’s the future of MSNBC?
34:45 FDR’s attempt at DOGE
37:45 Jesse Waters
44:00 Politico: Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’, https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
50:00 Whither MSNBC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5q5sj8CsLs
52:00 Perhaps most egregious liberal media bias is to hire left-wing people who hate Trump to cover the news media
1:01:00 WP: Weight-loss drugs aren’t just slimming waists. They’re shifting the economy., https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/23/ozempic-wegovy-change-life-spending/
1:13:00 WP: Her claim of anti-straight bias could upend discrimination law
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could unleash a wave of workplace bias claims by Whites, men and people who are straight., https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/25/ohio-discrimination-marlean-ames-supreme-court/
1:23:00 Hollywood gay mafia, https://www.lukeford.net/essays/contents/homo_mafia.htm
1:32:30 Trump’s Wrecking Ball, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ahz6GfcCfI

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Why One Hamas Leader Regrets The 10-7-23 Attack On Israel (2-25-25)

Posted on February 25, 2025 by Luke Ford

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The Third Anniversary Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine (2-24-25)

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 Yes, Zelensky is a dictator
08:00 Putin & Russia are formidable, zelensky and ukraine are not.
11:00 Constitutional Dictatorship – Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies (1948), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=159048
51:00 Trump Fealty, Ukraine, and Crowd Size, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZnjiplDIxc
54:15 Jesse Waters
1:08:00 Meghan McCain’s Happy Hour S1E2 | The Latest in Politics & Pop Culture, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgnCbfSzAvM
1:11:30 Joy Reid out at MSNBC
1:18:00 Part of the reason that the MSM protected Biden is that they despised Kamala Harris
1:33:00 Australia’s low quality food
1:35:00 DTG: Chris Langan: The Smartest Person in the World with a 200 IQ!, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/chris-langan-the-smartest-person-in-the-world-with-a-200-iq

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Roman Roots for an Imperial Presidency: Revisiting Clinton Rossiter Rossiter’s 1948 Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Luke Ford

David Rudenstine, Benjamin Cardozo law professor, wrote in 2013:

* If it is controlled too tightly the democratic state may succumb to the threat and thus disappear. The challenge is to thread the eye of this narrow needle to ensure that the democratic state survives the crisis without sacrificing its democracy.
Rossiter argues that the demands of dictatorship find its “rationale” in three basic facts. One, the complex system of an ordinary democratic government is “essentially designed to function under normal, peaceful conditions, and is often unequal to the exigencies of a great national crisis.”36 Two, during a national crisis, which Rossiter defines as during a time of war, rebellion or economic depression, the government will become stronger to overcome the peril and the people will have fewer rights.37 Three, the empowered crisis government, “which in some instances might become an outright dictatorship,”38 must have “no other purposes than the preservation of the independence of the state,
the maintenance of the existing constitutional order, and the defense of the political and social liberties of the people.”39 Rossiter states without reservation or hesitancy that the dictatorial regime may “act arbitrarily and even dictatorially in the swift adoption of measures designed to save the state and its people from the destructive effects of the particular crisis.”
* Rossiter thought that the emergence of the Atomic Age meant that going forward the United States must always remain a powerful military power, that there would be no significant difference between a time of peace and a time of war, and that the defense and survival of the United States required a presidency that possessed power greater in scope and character than the power possessed by prior presidents.

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Constitutional Dictatorship – Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies (1948)

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Luke Ford

William J. Quick writes in the November 2001 forward to this book by Clinton Rossiter:

* “The question you propose, whether circumstances do not sometimes occur, which make it a duty in officers of high trust, to assume authorities beyond the law, is easy of solution in principle, but sometimes embarrassing in practice. A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.”
-Letter of Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, Monticello, September 20, 1810
* How shall we be governed during the War on Terrorism? Definitely not as we have in the past. Existing governing practices comprehensively failed to protect the people and cannot be continued. Since we have been forced to face the horrors of terror attacks on the United States we likewise need to consider the sort of government such a war will force us to adopt. The “inescapable truth,” Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modem democracies in crisis, Constitutional Dictatorship, is that “No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.” Saving the country, as Jefferson wrote, is the highest obligation. Rossiter added the stunning thought that dictatorships can be constitutional. Following the last forty years of judicial superiority, his concept of a “constitutional dictatorship” is more shocking today than when he wrote it.
Rossiter concluded, based on the most thoroughgoing study of the use of emergency powers in modem democracies-Weimar Germany, France, England, and the United States-that the facts of history demonstrate that, from time to time, constitutional dictatorship has served as an indispensable factor in maintaining constitutional democracy.
* Francis Biddle, Roosevelt’s attorney general, was asked later whether the Japanese internment decision was a difficult one for Roosevelt; he explained that he did not think “the Constitutional difficulty plagued him.” Moreover, Biddle continued, the “Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President. That was a question of law which ultimately the Supreme Court must decide. And meanwhile-probably a long meanwhile-we must get on with the war.”
Jefferson did not believe he had authority under the Constitution to buy the Louisiana Territory. He did it because it was essential for the country’s future, and Napoleon’s difficulties gave us an opportunity that might never be repeated.
* American law schools, however, teach today, as they have taught generations of lawyers, that the U.S. Constitution is never suspended; it is at all times in full force and effect.
* The trouble with this view of course, is that it is inaccurate. Rossiter proves this over and over in his analysis of presidential action during the Civil War, World War I, the Depression, and World War II. The problem created by our law schools teaching Supreme Court rhetoric rather than historical truth is that the legal profession, critical in all aspects of the use of emergency power, is misinformed. They should all read Rossiter as soon as possible.
* Rossiter outlines the principles of constitutional dictatorship as follows:
First, the complex system of government of the democratic, constitutional state is essentially designed to function under normal, peaceful conditions, and is often unequal to the exigencies of a great national crisis.
Therefore, in time of crisis a democratic, constitutional government must be temporarily altered to whatever degree is necessary to overcome the peril and restore normal conditions. This alteration invariably involves government of a stronger character; that is, the government will have more power and the people fewer rights.
* The crisis institutions of martial law, executive legislation, and the suspension of civil rights facilitate the overthrow of the constitution by revolutionary or reactionary interests.
The other major danger of the constitutional dictatorship is that the employment of special crisis institutions will work changes in the permanent structure of government and society: “No constitutional government ever passed through a period in which emergency powers were used without undergoing some degree of permanent alteration always in the direction of an aggrandizement of the power of the state.”
* The emergency, in the case of the War on Terrorism, is open-ended. We are going on a permanent war footing. This makes it different from any of the emergencies analyzed by Rossiter, and which also makes more significant what Rossiter called the “final danger”-that the government by default, rather than design, may lose the will to resume its normal constitutional responsibilities, “that the people along with the rulers will fall into the habits of authoritarian government and fail to insist upon a reestablishment of democratic ways.”

Clinton Rossiter wrote in his 1948 book:

* Consider for a moment the government of the United States which piloted the American people through the crisis of the second World War. In the successful prosecution of a bitter struggle for survival the administration at Washington had continuous resort to actions that would have been looked upon as unconstitutional, undemocratic, and downright
dictatorial in time of peace. Since it was a time of war these actions seemed altogether necessary and proper, and the American people generally gave them their support and applause. The ordinary citizen can list any number of unusual governmental procedures that were instituted in the four years of the war, procedures which only the paramount
necessity of victory in an all-out war could have sanctioned : the Price Control Act, through which Congress handed over lawmaking power to the executive branch of the government; the history-making “destroyer deal,” in which the President disregarded several statutes; the strict control of the American free economy by a host of temporary governmental agencies, most notably the WPB and the OP A; the direct invasion upon the freedom of the individual effected by rationing, the draft, and almost confiscatory taxes; military rule in Hawaii; the forcible removal of tens of thousands of American citizens from their homes on the Pacific Coast; the arbitrary suppression of the seditious
words and periodicals of other American citizens; and the spectacular Army seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company. In these actions the government of the United States demonstrated conclusively that in the maintenance of its own existence it could possess and wield authoritarian power, and yet in the course of these same actions-whatever individual injustices and hardships may have been worked-the pattern of free government was left sufficiently unimpaired so that it functions today in full recognition of the political and social liberties of the American people, and in substantial accord with the peacetime principles of the constitutional scheme. We have fought a successful total war, and we are still a democracy.
* Civil liberties, free enterprise, constitutionalism, government by debate and compromise-these are strictly luxury products, and in but a fraction of the governments of man since the dawn of history has the pattern of government and society which the American people take for granted been able to thrive and prosper. “Democracy is a child of peace and cannot live apart from its mother,” writes one noted publicist. “War is a contradiction of all that democracy implies. War is not and cannot be democratic,” adds a respected Justice of the Supreme Court.
* At the very moment when the people of the United States were shouting about the differences between democracy and dictatorship, they were admitting in practice the necessity of conforming their own government more closely to the dictatorial pattern!
* Fire, flood, drought, earthquake, riots, and great strikes have all been dealt with by unusual and often dictatorial methods. Wars are not won by debating societies, rebellions are not suppressed by judicial injunctions, the reemployment of twelve million jobless citizens will not be effected through a scrupulous regard for the tenets of free enterprise, and hardships caused by the eruptions of nature cannot be mitigated by letting nature take its course.
* The government meets the crisis by assuming more powers and respecting fewer rights.
* All the dictatorial actions in the recent war were carried on in the name of freedom. The absolutist pattern was followed and absolutist institutions were employed for one great and sufficient reason: that constitutional democracy should not perish from the earth. The democracies fought fire with fire, destroyed autocracy with autocracy, crushed the dictators with dictatorship-all that they might live again under their complex institutions of freedom and constitutionalism.
* All constitutional countries have made use of constitutional dictatorship.
* The institution of martial rule is a recognition that there are times in the lives of all communities when crisis has so completely disrupted the normal workings of government that the military is the only power remaining that can restore public order and secure the execution of the laws.
* a voluntary transfer of lawmaking authority from the nation’s representative assembly to the nation’s executive, a frank recognition that in many kinds of crisis (particularly economic depressions) the legislature is unequal to the task of day-to-day, emergency lawmaking, and that it must therefore hand over its functions to someone better
qualified to enact arbitrary crisis laws.
* The crisis expansion of power is generally matched by a crisis contraction of liberty.
* [The law of necessity] is little better than a rationalization of extra-constitutional, illegal emergency action. The fact remains that there have been instances in the history of every free state when its rulers were forced by the intolerable exigencies of some grave national crisis to proceed to emergency actions for which there
was no sanction in law, constitution, or custom, and which indeed were directly contrary to all three of these foundations of constitutional democracy.
* Lincoln: “Every man thinks he has a right to live and every government thinks it has a right to live. Every man when driven to the wall by a murderous assailant will override all laws to protect himself, and this is called the great right of self-defense. So every government, when driven to the wall by a rebellion, will trample down a constitution before it will allow itself to be destroyed. This may not be constitutional law, but it is fact.”
* “The law is made for the state, not the state for the law. If the circumstances are such that a choice must be made between the two, it is the law which must be sacrificed to the state.”
* In the last resort, it is always the executive branch in the government which possesses and wields the extraordinary powers of self-preservation of any democratic, constitutional state.
* The dictatorship is a phenomenon which has intrigued almost all ordinary readers of history and almost no students of law and politics.
* it was not many years after the establishment of the Republic that the rulers of the new Rome were compelled by the stress of the times to go back to the recently discredited monarchical form of government as the only means of saving the state from extinction. The same men who had driven the kings out of Rome and had set up a constitutional government were now forced to admit in practice that this new government was inadequate to the task of its own preservation, and that only a temporary retreat to the kingly power could enable it to carry through to normal times.
* The unitary executive was completely alien to the normal scheme of government in Rome.
* the constitutional history of Rome had as one of its salient features the gradual weakening of executive power.
* The “advice” of the Senate was rarely disregarded by any Roman official.
* the Republic and the dictatorship reached the peak of their development side by side, and that the decline of the former was matched in time and degree by the decline of the latter.
* Heroic and extraordinary (and occasionally ruthless) governmental action was necessary to the establishment and protection of the new [Weimar] Republic and to the security of its law-abiding citizens. Lacking the emergency competence provided in Article 48, the rulers of republican Germany could hardly have launched their infant democracy into the stormy seas of postwar Europe.
* Government in republican Germany in these last years was authoritative and harsh, but the nature and intensity of the political (and economic) disturbances which threatened the peace and security of the Reich made such government inevitable. Few democratic governments have ever been faced with so virulent and insoluble a situation, for a good one-third of her citizenry was ardently committed to the destruction of the Republic, by violence if necessary. The indispensability of Article 48 in the government’s attempts to combat this wholesale threat to German democracy should be obvious indeed.
* Inviolability of domicile. The law of 1849 had authorized military invasion of the sanctity of the French home.
* Freedom of assembly. Throughout the war, gatherings of citizens to discuss controversial subjects were generally prohibited.
* Freedom of the press. In the War of 1870 the Germans had derived much valuable military and diplomatic information from the French newspapers, and the regime of 1914 was fully decided to prevent the recurrence of any such costly folly. The liberty of the press was not to obstruct the effort of the Republic to stay alive.
* Freedom of person and trade. The years of war witnessed severe administrative and military restrictions upon the freedom of the citizen to travel about and pursue the normal pleasures of civilian life. These were generally based on the belief that the competence of the military authorities to keep the peace extended to the adoption of all measures
convenient to that end… Absinthe can drive a man crazy; crazy men are a nuisance in times when public order must be maintained; therefore the freedom of Frenchmen to indulge in absinthe was suspended for the duration of the war.
* The rights of labor. In France as in the other democracies it was recognized by government and people alike that the rights of labor, particularly the right to strike, would suffer considerable abridgment under the compulsion of war.
* Whether it was the prohibition of the sale of absinthe or the legislative postponement of elections (all parliamentary and almost all municipal elections were suspended during the war), the departures from the normal pattern of French civil and political liberty were valuable adjuncts to the successful prosecution of the war.

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The Trans Murder Cult (2-23-25)

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 The less you depend on being right to sustain your sense of self, the easier it is to listen to the other side.
06:00 Musk blames Zelensky for Gonzalo Lira. “Zelensky kill@d an American journalist!” Musk wrote on X. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzYBOcBFFps
15:00 Doge appears shambolic – sometimes how you do things is more important than what you do.
20:00 History’s Case for Trump’s Gaza Plan – with Andrew Roberts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhH6PJXqCEo
23:30 Delta Payoffs & The Hamas Parade, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSEQvZhI4ys
28:00 FP: The online right is building monster, https://www.thefp.com/p/the-online-right-is-building-a-monster
50:00 LAT: Woman suspected of killing [lesbian] Cal Fire captain was convicted of killing her first spouse, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-21/wife-suspected-of-killing-cal-fire-captain-was-convicted-for-killing-her-first-spouse-officials-say
54:00 LAT: 9th Circuit clears Grindr, dating app for gay men, in child sex trafficking case, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-22/supreme-court-grindr-section-230-challenge
56:00 The historical case for Trump’s riviera, https://freebeacon.com/israel/the-historical-case-for-trumps-riviera/
1:18:00 Is Europe part of America?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q-rytViJ4A
1:34:40 Newsreader by Alex Lahey, https://genius.com/Alex-lahey-newsreader-lyrics
1:48:30 The biggest mistake the trans movement made, https://mattruby.substack.com/p/the-biggest-mistake-the-trans-movement
1:50:30 Which comics should I follow? I love comics, but they all seem to have a low value to shlock ratio
1:53:00 Nick Mullens, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Mullen
1:54:00 Tim Dillon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Dillon_(comedian)
1:56:00 Bronze Age Pervert, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_Pervert
1:57:00 Jim Goad vs Matt Forney, joined by Nick Fuentes, Beardson Beardly, Shawn, Baked Alaska, on Luke Ford, https://www.bitchute.com/video/xZJ771nnUcn4
2:00:00 What is it like in an orthodox synagogue?
2:08:00 Decoding Mike Benz (8-18-24), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0B4McTxyqY
2:13:00 Overcoming Tall Poppy Syndrome
2:58:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic full episode, Feb. 21, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu9d0KWE7UY
3:15:00 Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130386
3:51:30 Europe’s latent yearning for free speech
4:21:00 Michael joins the show to discuss DOGE, https://x.com/real_machera
4:33:00 Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature (Part 3) || Rabbi Adam Mintz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek3l42b1S-c
4:40:00 Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought, https://www.amazon.com/Resisting-History-Historicism-Discontents-German-Jewish/dp/0691146608/

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