{"id":159101,"date":"2025-02-26T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159101"},"modified":"2025-02-27T06:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:23:24","slug":"political-scientist-michael-s-kochin-on-the-age-of-trump-2-26-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159101","title":{"rendered":"Political Scientist Michael S. Kochin On The Age Of Trump (2-26-25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9bRHgtTmBs?si=bazMZ4FMM__B1_Ys\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <a title=\"Click to play at 01:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#60\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"60\">01:00<\/a> Trump&#8217;s plan for Gaza<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 08:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#480\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"480\">08:00<\/a> How morality is used against Israel <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 13:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#810\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"810\">13:30<\/a> Under Trump we have more free speech <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 15:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#900\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"900\">15:00<\/a> Affirmative action <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 23:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1380\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1380\">23:00<\/a> Why Michael Kochin eschews jargon <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 25:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1500\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1500\">25:00<\/a> Paying obeisance to the tiny group of people who decide what knowledge is <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 31:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1860\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1860\">31:00<\/a>  &#8220;It is not possible to articulate common experience in politically acceptable language.&#8221;<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 39:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2340\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2340\">39:00<\/a> Collegiality among professionals <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 45:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2700\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2700\">45:00<\/a> Does Israel have a higher quality of life than America? <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 51:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3060\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3060\">51:00<\/a> Jacob Taubes: The Man Who Made Thinking Erotic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/17\/books\/review\/professor-of-apocalypse-jerry-z-muller.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/17\/books\/review\/professor-of-apocalypse-jerry-z-muller.html<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 53:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3180\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3180\">53:00<\/a> Accreditation <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 57:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3420\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3420\">57:00<\/a> The right-winger who wants a career in academia <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 58:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3480\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3480\">58:00<\/a> Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? by Harry Lewis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Excellence-Without-Soul-Harry-Lewis\/dp\/1586485016\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Excellence-Without-Soul-Harry-Lewis\/dp\/1586485016<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:06:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3960\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3960\">1:06:00<\/a> Nathan Cofnas&#8217;s critique of woke<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:08:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4080\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4080\">1:08:00<\/a> Critiquing women in law enforcement, fire fighting, and the military <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:12:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4320\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4320\">1:12:00<\/a> Prof. Thomas Powers\u2019 recent book on civil rights politics deemed \u2018the definitive study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carthage.edu\/live\/news\/51009-prof-thomas-powers-recent-book-on-civil-rights\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.carthage.edu\/live\/news\/51009-prof-thomas-powers-recent-book-on-civil-rights<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:14:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4440\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4440\">1:14:00<\/a> Israel judicial reform, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:22:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4920\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4920\">1:22:00<\/a> Donald Trump is a race realist <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:23:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5010\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5010\">1:23:30<\/a> Steve Sailer<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:24:34\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5074\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5074\">1:24:34<\/a> Leo Strauss<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:30:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5400\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5400\">1:30:00<\/a> Paleocons vs Straussians <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:51:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6660\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6660\">1:51:00<\/a> Gadi Taub, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/podcasts\/israel-update\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/podcasts\/israel-update<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:52:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6720\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6720\">1:52:00<\/a> Caroline Glick, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caroline_Glick\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caroline_Glick<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:54:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6840\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6840\">1:54:00<\/a> Meir Kahane, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meir_Kahane\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meir_Kahane<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:50:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6600\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6600\">1:50:00<\/a> United States Semiquincentennial, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Semiquincentennial\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Semiquincentennial<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:02:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7320\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7320\">2:02:00<\/a> Historicism, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historicism\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historicism<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:04:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7440\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7440\">2:04:00<\/a> Walther Rathenau, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walther_Rathenau\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walther_Rathenau<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:05:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7500\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7500\">2:05:00<\/a> Exodus, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Exodus\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Exodus<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:08:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7680\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7680\">2:08:00<\/a> Who wrote the Torah? <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Torah\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Torah<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:11:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7860\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7860\">2:11:00<\/a> Nehemia Gordon, <a href=\"https:\/\/carm.org\/preachers-and-teachers\/nehemia-gordon\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/carm.org\/preachers-and-teachers\/nehemia-gordon\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mskochin\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/x.com\/mskochin<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/telaviv.academia.edu\/MichaelKochin\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/telaviv.academia.edu\/MichaelKochin<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/reforming-the-national-security-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/reforming-the-national-security-state\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/the-crisis-of-the-managerial-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/the-crisis-of-the-managerial-state\/<\/a><br \/>An Independent Empire: Diplomacy &amp; War in the Making of the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Independent-Empire-Diplomacy-Making-United-ebook\/dp\/B082T3MYJD\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Independent-Empire-Diplomacy-Making-United-ebook\/dp\/B082T3MYJD\/<\/a><br \/>Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Five-Chapters-Rhetoric-Character-Nothing-ebook\/dp\/B017EUAR4C\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Five-Chapters-Rhetoric-Character-Nothing-ebook\/dp\/B017EUAR4C\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01:00 Trump&#8217;s plan for Gaza08:00 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"01:00 Trump&#039;s plan for Gaza08:00 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 &quot;It is not possible to articulate common experience in politically acceptable language.&quot;39:00\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Luke Ford\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"HMjuOfLRyzTPB-5Z5FG4BHkfZ1fbEij34rmbKM3BkZ4\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=159101\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.10\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Luke Ford - No sacred cows.\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Political Scientist Michael S. 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