Decoding The Lab Leak (6-4-24)

01:00 Three anecdotes
07:00 Unlike the fall of 2000, Republican legal elites are lined up behind Trump
13:20 Steve Sailer says this is his best interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fitLTIwao3Y
16:20 Women questioning their sexuality, https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/am-i-ok-review-dakota-johnson-tig-notaro-max-7ec20ba2?mod=arts-culture_lead_pos2
18:30 Joe Biden’s border crackdown
29:00 Paul Gottfried talks to Joseph Cotto about the Trump conviction, https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1rmGPMgEnydJN
31:00 The Atlantic: Pat McAfee and the Threat to Sports Journalism, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/pat-mcafee-threat-sports-journalism/678480/
33:45 Why are the experts arguing for natural origins of Covid?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html
1:05:45 Alina Chan on the lab leak, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC-eQmzZnqM
1:28:00 Elliott Blatt joins to discuss the lab leak
1:46:40 Republicans have lined up behind Trump regarding his felony convictions

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Decoding Reactions to the Trump Conviction (6-3-24)

01:00 Young men looking for a fight
05:00 One moron destroys the public space
08:00 Caitlin Clark getting pounded by the lesbian WNBA
17:45 Why is the left more effective than the right?
21:30 ‘War will break out’ | Alan Dershowitz reacts to Trump’s felony
23:30 Pride month in the U.S. military
54:00 The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart by Jeremy Carl, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/call-it-anti-white-racism-jeremy
1:46:00 The devastating impact of disparate impact ruling and legislation
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/353134/israel-gaza-rafah-argument
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/how-maga-enables-corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/opinion/mexico-new-president-violence.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/us/politics/medicaid-reenrollment-black-hispanic.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/world/americas/mexico-election-morena-results.html
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-03/do-you-return-your-shopping-cart-this-psycologists-answer-enraged-thousands
How is the Trump trial different from Watergate? It wasn’t televised live. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143174
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/is-israel-defensible/
The naked state, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140282
https://www.latimes.com/la-influential/story/2024-06-02/the-creators
Science Envy in Theories of Religion, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155267
Max Weber and the Two Universities, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155263

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Decoding The Trump Conviction, Ukraine, Israel, Science, Liberalism, Academy (6-2-24)

01:00 Liberal catharsis after law does what politics can’t — constrain Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NweVBH_QLtg
07:00 Male sex drive is stronger than the female sex drive, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/well/family/sex-myths.html,
21:00 More Americans identify as Republican than Democrat
31:00 Robert Barnes on the Donald Trump Conviction, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0UtOpoq8A
37:00 Hitler and Abductive Logic: The Strategy of a Tyrant, https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Abductive-Logic-Strategy-Tyrant/dp/0739194615
40:00 Science Envy in Theories of Religion, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155267
Is a Second Civil War INEVITABLE?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCogKGV2NDw
The Axis of Chaos, with Matt Pottinger, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBhL1kV1EeQ
Prof. John Mearsheimer on the Israel Lobby’s Grip on U.S. Politics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKXSReKRWaQ
Hypervigilance and diversity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0lBpkSyHM
Secure attachment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTd6SyKLFH4
Why Civilisations Collapse Into Dust, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTd6SyKLFH4

01:00 My livestream keeps getting shutting down after I make a point about politicians and public officials lying
03:00 The Axis of Chaos, with Matt Pottinger, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBhL1kV1EeQ
11:45 Israel enters Rafah
15:00 How do RW academics make it? Should they diversify to podcasts?
18:00 Prof. John Mearsheimer on the Israel Lobby’s Grip on U.S. Politics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKXSReKRWaQ
25:00 Vali Nasr: Iran, Israel, and America’s Future in the Middle East | Foreign Affairs Interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVM0HRx5Wss
36:00 Christopher Caldwell: Is Israel Defensible? The cruel geostrategic logic of the Holy Land, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155305
55:00 Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power by Randall Schweller, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155281
1:02:00 CRITICAL THINKING – Fundamentals: Abductive Arguments, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vflZuk-_Hz4
1:09:00 Max Weber and the Two Universities, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155263
1:13:50 Why Civilisations Collapse Into Dust, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTd6SyKLFH4
1:20:20 Sometimes dictatorship is the most effective way to get things done
1:28:00 NYT: Extremely Inappropriate, A Show That Makes Young Japanese Pine for the ‘Inappropriate’ 1980s, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/world/asia/japan-extremely-inappropriate.html
1:35:00 The naked state, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140282
2:04:00 Young men tilt conservative
2:15:20 Is a Second Civil War INEVITABLE?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCogKGV2NDw
2:30:40 Big Tech Bans Alex Jones, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id4C9k06jcs
2:32:00 Elliott Blatt joins
2:50:00 The dissident right has become tedious
3:11:45 The adaptive use of illness and depression
3:18:00 Colds v flu, https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/coldflu.htm
2:29:40 Big Tech Bans Alex Jones, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id4C9k06jcs
3:33:25 The Atlantic: Why Is Charlie Kirk Selling Me Food Rations?, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/charlie-kirk-podcast-ads/678450/
3:35:00 The Long Con by Rick Pearlstein, https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

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Trump conviction – best narrative won – power of abductive reasoning

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Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada (2020)

Aaron W. Hughes responds to his critics:

…all our narratives, terms, categories, and frames of reference emerge from the shadows, and we would do well to illumine them. Only by understanding these narratives and frames of reference—their genealogies, their investment in political, legal, intellectual, and social contexts—is it possible to reflect on where we have been, where we currently are, and where we are heading collectively.

…I do think the academic study of religion, both in Canada and abroad, is in a
precarious situation at the current moment. Enrollments in courses are down, provincial
funding for the arts post-COVID will inevitably be even worse than that in the pre-
COVID era… Will we survive?

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