How Covid Explains My Worldview (1-1-24)

01:00 Different strategies have differing effectiveness in different situations
10:30 Stop saying "we need to build alternative institutions", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyq126kZMI
23:00 Life is a Dinner Table, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSawhpPzOFs
42:20 People with Bigger Brains are More Intelligent
45:00 Immigrants with less than a bachelor's degree are a net cost to society
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/amy-wax-versus-the-midwit-gynocrats
49:00 The A-cup woman vs the E-cup woman
54:45 The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153841
58:00 Tucker SOUNDS OFF On Ben Shapiro, Israel, Free Speech And UFOs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lIO3B3k7Mo
1:05:30 From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqYMG8BYScE
1:07:00 Daniel Gordis background, https://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/danny_gordis.htm
1:27:00 Elliott Blatt joins the show to talk about New Year's Resolution
1:29:00 Elliott wants to dial back Twitter
1:50:00 Fentanyl whores
2:00:00 Elliott's drinking
2:29:30 Paul Hedderman - Non Duality - Skillman, NJ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00se60gh-tc
2:38:00 What makes for a guru? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=148127
Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153758
Populism, Neoconservatism & Lessons in the Application of Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153654
WP : Trump disqualified from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot by state Supreme Court, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/19/trump-off-colorado-ballot/
Israel's border failure, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/19/failure-at-the-fence-documentary/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/abbott-texas-border-law-arrests.html
Uvalde response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBofi_etkUo
Populism is popular but ineffective, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153654
New Yorker: How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker: The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also rising to the top, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153558
NYT: Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153538