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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Luke Ford

Philosopher Elizabeth Anderson writes in this 2017 book: * Walmart prohibits employees from exchanging casual remarks while on duty, calling this “time theft.” Apple inspects the personal belongings of their retail workers, who lose up to a half – hour … Continue reading →

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New Yorker: Work Sucks. What Could Salvage It?

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Luke Ford

Harvard historian Erik Baker writes in The New Yorker, May 1, 2024: New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it. There’s a line in one of my favorite songs … Continue reading →

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Decoding The Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine Campus Protests (5-5-24)

Posted on May 5, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 My analysis of campus protests: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15496103:00 National Review: Since When Does Criminal Law Not Apply to College Campus Protests?,https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/since-when-does-criminal-law-not-apply-to-college-campus-protests/10:00 New York Times podcast on campus protests, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV1_3EovQZs13:00 Journalist Lydia Polgreen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Polgreen16:30 Victor Davis Hanson: Radical Far-Left Palestine protests threaten … Continue reading →

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Pro Palestine campus protests at UCLA (5-3-24)

Posted on May 3, 2024 by Luke Ford

President Joe Biden said protest is fine but disruption is not. The essence of these campus protests has been disruption. The only reason these protests have captured the attention of the news is because of their disruption. Pro-Palestine speech is … Continue reading →

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Decoding The Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine Campus Protests Part Two (5-2-24)

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Luke Ford

02:00 Historian J. Otto Pohl joins the show, https://twitter.com/JOttoPohl109:00 The world runs on hierarchy, not democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15365414:00 Elite discourse, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15477416:00 Knowledge is a conversation through time by the keepers of knowledge24:00 Is Iran a rational actor? 32:00 Palestinians destabilized Jordan, … Continue reading →

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