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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- Eric Kaufmann: The Man Who Made the Majority Visible
- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
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- The Cross at Sinjar: Tom Holland’s Dominion
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BEST POSTS:
- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
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* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
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* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
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5 empowering ways to boost your vaginal confidence (4-24-20)
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Why Do Entrepreneurs Embrace Woo-Woo Ideas? (4-19-22)
00:00 Most people have a positive outlook on life
04:00 Suicide catalyst Teal Swan, https://gizmodo.com/weve-launched-an-investigative-podcast-about-a-controve-1826416613
16:40 Elliott Blatt joins
18:00 I pulled off my first pullups in 34 years
21:30 How do you live without purpose? Elliott’s journey of discovery
26:30 Elliott’s magic mushroom community
30:00 Finding the right distance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236YtgmB3zM
57:00 Life group, https://www.theringer.com/2022/3/3/22956353/fatherhood-cancer-jonathan-tjarks
1:00:30 Friendships – One Part of Your Life You Shouldn’t Optimize, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/opinion/culture/making-friends-covid.html
1:14:40 The Libs of Tik Tok, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/
1:16:00 The ‘Libs of Tik Tok’ Exposé Is Part of a New Trend: Shaming Private Citizens who Dissent, https://www.newsweek.com/libs-tik-tok-expose-part-new-trend-shaming-private-citizens-who-dissent-opinion-1699120
1:18:00 Why Taylor Lorenz’s Libs of TikTok Expose Has Outraged Conservatives, https://www.newsweek.com/why-taylor-lorenz-libs-tiktok-expose-has-outraged-conservatives-1698841
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Teal Swan – The Suicide Catalyst (4-13-22)
00:00 I want to go where love is
04:20 The DOWNFALL of KATI MORTON || Youtube’s Corrupt Therapist, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghPBRx2yxy8
08:45 The Dark Origin Story of Internet Spiritual Guru Teal Swan, https://gizmodo.com/the-dark-origin-story-of-internet-spiritual-guru-teal-s-1826598620
14:00 MILENNIAL WOES IS INNOCENT!, https://www.bitchute.com/video/tfLm6dLcMQmu/
17:00 Millenial Woes March 28, https://odysee.com/@millennialwoes:4/Gram202213:b
34:00 Elliott Blatt joins
39:00 Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=121464
44:00 The best erotic slasher film I’ve seen, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_2022
48:00 Are you a good friend to you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAFDr8Er80
1:41:40 Baked Alaska versus the world, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06KIbsYHSg4
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Elon Musk launches hostile bid for Twitter (4-14-22)
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Checking Out Of The National Project
Time: 4 Ways That the Pandemic Changed How We See Ourselves
Time: It’s Harder Than Ever to Care About Anything
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Elite v Popular Discourse on Crime & Race & Subway shooter (4-13-22)
00:00 Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself, https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/brooklyn-shooting-suspect-frank-james-in-police-custody/
35:00 Elliott Blatt joins
37:30 Ethan Ralph’s upcoming corn harvest
41:00 With Mr Metokurs health problems, when he appears he’s like Elvis
49:00 Maybe Elliott should postpone doing his taxes and go out and enable an alcoholic who might then care about him
1:20:00 Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory by Stephen Turner, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143297
1:45:00 What’s wrong with social science? https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/
1:50:00 The Replication Crisis: Crash Course Statistics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzEGSm23y8
2:23:00 Trump Poses a Test Democracy Is Failing, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/opinion/trump-democracy-decline-fall.html
2:27:00 John Hinckley Jr, who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981, will play SOLD-OUT show in Brooklyn this summer after serving 35 years in psychiatric hospital, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10715141/amp/Man-tried-assassinate-Ronald-Reagan-1981-play-sold-concert-Brooklyn-summer.html
Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory
Stephen Turner writes in 2020:
Rates of crime for Blacks in the United States in the post-slavery era have always been high relative to Whites. But explaining, or minimizing, this fact faces a major problem: individual excuses for bad acts point to deficiencies, in the agent, which are perhaps forgivable, such as mental deficiency or a deprived childhood, but at the price of treating the agent as less than a full member of the moral community. Collectivizing excuses risks
implying group inferiority. The history of attempts to provide an explanation of crime that mitigates blame without undermining full participation to the moral community is long and convoluted, leading to the presently widespread claim that crime is itself a product of victimization through pervasive racism. Three basic strategies – rejection of comparison, attribution to racially invariant causes and explanation by reference to uniquely Black conditions, such as subculture or extreme stigmatization – are identified and their ethical implications distinguished.
Tucker Carlson Talks To Amy Wax About Saving Western Civilization (4-11-22)
00:00 Amy Wax firestorm over bourgeois values, https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html
02:00 UPenn law professor tells Tucker Carlson that “Blacks” and other “non-Western” groups harbor “resentment and shame and envy”, https://www.inquirer.com/news/amy-wax-university-of-pennsylvania-law-school-20220411.html
12:00 The moral responsibilities of white males, https://nation.foxnews.com/watch/88a707094b42181e759c8730ea5a17b7/
53:50 Amy Wax has become more opposed to affirmative action
1:34:00 Selma is tired of being just a symbol — they want change, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/11/selma-struggles-economic-justice/
1:40:00 Four unsettling takeaways from the French election’s first round results, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/11/france-election-macron-le-pen-unsettling-takeaways/
1:54:00 Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143252
2:22:00 The Tradition of Post-Tradition, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143278
2:54:00 Historian Matthew Ghobrial joins, https://twitter.com/GhobrialMatthew
3:12:00 Amy Wax speaks of “white values”
3:18:00 Liberal values vs traditional values
3:24:00 Baron Joseph Cotto, https://mobile.twitter.com/josephfordcotto
3:31:00 Covid lockdowns
3:52:50 The morality of Covid
3:58:00 What is the West? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line
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