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The New Yorker: Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power – How the Ohio Republican built an insurgent bid for Speaker on the lies of Donald Trump.

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Luke Ford

Jonathan Blitzer writes: * …online conspiracists began claiming that Starbird and other researchers at the Election Integrity Partnership had colluded with the Department of Homeland Security to censor twenty-two million tweets during the 2020 election. This was, Starbird told me, … Continue reading →

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Pundits & Gurus (6-2-23)

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 I’m bathed in love 04:00 I woke up at 11pm filled with resentment 22:20 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about his alcoholic friend in recovery 23:40 He got on modafinil and feels great 27:30 Ethan Ralph’s redemption arc 30:00 … Continue reading →

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Off His Royal Tits

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Luke Ford

Andrew O’Hagen writes: Penguins​ are super-parents. When the female provides dinner she doesn’t just reach for the pesto but launches herself into the treacherous, icy depths, returning with a stomach full of half-digested fish to be spewed down the gullet … Continue reading →

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The Jewish Angle To Rony Guldman’s Story

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Luke Ford

In his work in progress, A Critical Theory of Academia, Rony Guldmann writes: * Barbara [Fried] had remarked to someone in the faculty lounge at the outset of our December 2008 meeting (with Joe) that here was a meeting of … Continue reading →

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That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some excerpts from this 1988 book: “Historical objectivity” is not a single idea, but rather a sprawling collection of assumptions, attitudes, aspirations, and antipathies. At best it is what the philosopher W. B. Gallie has called an “essentially … Continue reading →

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