Luke Ford
1,543 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★ - 4 ratingsI've written five books (see Amazon.com). I've appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone as well on 60 Minutes, ABC News, and Entertainment Tonight. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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The Religion Of Anti-Racism (11-25-21)
November 25, 2021 07:18 - 8 minutes - 4.11 MBLAT: America and Ahmaud Arbery: Guilty verdicts in Georgia bring ‘that small glimpse of hope’, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-24/la-na-arbery-trial-nation https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/24/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-reveals-racism-us https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-verdict-reaction.html https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/265-religion-anti-racism Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/...
Ahmaud Arbery Verdict Brings The Racial Healing To America (11-25-21)
November 25, 2021 07:17 - 9 minutes - 4.48 MBLAT: America and Ahmaud Arbery: Guilty verdicts in Georgia bring ‘that small glimpse of hope’, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-24/la-na-arbery-trial-nation https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/24/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-reveals-racism-us https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-verdict-reaction.html Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join Coinbase wallet: 32oK5JiKvCEw3bpdsQDUc1Qys6ao3Jeie4,...
Translating Inspiration Into Perspiration (11-25-21)
November 25, 2021 07:16 - 5 minutes - 2.55 MBHere is an important paper from Princeton in 2016: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142188 Meaning-making is a fundamental characteristic of thinking minds. Expose a person to a set of completely unrelated events and observe the complex ways in which human minds create connections, tell stories, and go beyond what is given to imbue chaos with order. We are concerned here with understanding the conditions under which one's tendency to search for meaning backfires and leads to conspiratorial think...
The WASP Question Revisited With Professor Andrew Fraser
November 21, 2021 21:49 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBAccording to the Amazon.com description: "The WASP Question" deals with the question of Anglo-Saxon life in the United States, Australia and everywhere across the world where they have settled. Having for the most part lost a sense of their own ethnic identity in a time of increasing globalism and international multiculturalism which values nearly every culture except their own, the ‘WASPs’ – White Anglo-Saxon Protestants – are alternatively mocked, attacked and ignored in their own lands. Pr...
Fear And Self-Loathing On My Journey Home
November 20, 2021 20:17 - 19 minutes - 9.1 MBMy trip so far: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142282, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142279 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Listener Call In #: 1-310-997-4596 Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundclou...
It’s Harder To Maintain Your Delusions In Australia (11-16-21)
November 20, 2021 20:16 - 3 minutes - 1.72 MBI'm returning to Australia for the first time since 2014. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142282 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Listener Call In #: 1-310-997-4596 Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soun...
Live From Sydney, It's Friday Morning Live! (11-19-21)
November 20, 2021 20:14 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBMy trip so far: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142282, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142279 I’m flew into Sydney Thursday afternoon. My… just asked what is my aussie tax id # so he can employ me in manual labor. I told about him about the riches that come from my emotional revelations on Youtube. Burn! I’m not flying to Australia for two months to work. I’m flying to Australia for two months to journal about my feelings while eating mangos and watching cricket. I don’t think I’ve fully unpacked...
Sometimes You Need Less Faith(11-19-21)
November 20, 2021 20:13 - 28 minutes - 13 MBWalking out into traffic is a little bit too much faith in your fellow man. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142282 I'm ready to move to Sydney. I can't believe the quality of life here. I’m making a list of pros and cons for leaving Los Angeles and staying down under. It’s my first time in Australia since June of 2014 and my first time in Sydney since June 1985. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFord...
Is Joe Biden The Decider? (11-11-21)
November 12, 2021 04:17 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBDays of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CK8CJVS/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/books/review/the-man-who-ran-washington-james-baker-peter-baker-susan-glasser.html http://stutzmanpa.com/ The Anger Merchants, https://fakenous.net/?p=2620 The Fallacy of Rationalism, https://fakenous.net/?p=2632 Step Eleven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC9zv1KvE0 Here is an important paper from Princeton in 2016: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142188 Meaning-making ...
Dopesick (TV Series) 11-10-21
November 11, 2021 14:48 - 11 minutes - 5.15 MBhttps://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1051475843/dopesick-hulu-true-story-opioid-addiction Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139670 Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In Childhood, Adolescence and Maturity by John Money, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130433 https://www.takimag.com/article/from-dreamland-to-nightmareland/ Steve Sailer writes: With the CDC estimating last month that drug overdose deaths rose ...
Luke Ford On Politically Provoked (11-9-21)
November 10, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBWe have a few audio problems in the first few minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrilateral_Security_Dialogue https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-hofstede/6d-model-of-national-culture/ https://americanmind.org/audio/the-stakes-the-american-monarchy/ https://unherd.com/2021/10/the-triumph-of-americas-ruling-class/ https://theweek.com/politics/1003035/the-far-right-contemplates-an-american-caesar https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-us-national-strategy-countering-d...
The Structure and the Situation (11-8-21)
November 09, 2021 02:56 - 2 hours - 55.1 MB00:00 The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0022Q8CVY/ 03:00 The Power Of The Situation To Shape Behavior, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140115 34:00 The Nostradamus Kid, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=34917 40:00 How Does Psychotherapy Change Our Brains?, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-works-and-why/202011/how-does-psychotherapy-change-our-brains 50:00 Mitch McConnell spent decades chasing power. Now he heeds Trump, who mocks him and wants him gone., http...
Republicans Have Found A Winning Formula Without Trump (11-3-21)
November 04, 2021 02:23 - 2 hours - 78.4 MB00:00 Republican do well in yesterday's elections 06:00 Elliott Blatt joins the show, https://twitter.com/elliottblatt 08:00 Elliott's misery after the 2020 presidential election 10:00 Elliott on January 6 riots 14:00 How would Elliott's bro describe him? 15:00 How social exclusion leads to conspiracy thinking, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142188 18:00 Elliott's disciplined methodology for ferreting out truth 20:00 Debbie Friedman, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Friedman 27:00 Ellio...
Charlottesville Trial Updates (11-2-21)
November 03, 2021 00:14 - 19 minutes - 8.7 MBAntisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/14-words https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/unite-the-right-witness-violent-plans-testimony https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/white-supremacists-slurs-charlottesville-trial https://www.o...
Best Day Yet At The Charlottesville Trial (11-2-21)
November 03, 2021 00:14 - 12 minutes - 5.57 MBAntisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/14-words https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/unite-the-right-witness-violent-plans-testimony https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/white-supremacists-slurs-charlottesville-trial Join this ch...
Hey Marginalized Losers! When Will China Go To War? (11-1-21)
November 02, 2021 00:14 - 56 minutes - 26 MBhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/us-china-war/620571/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/germany-has-qanon-problem-its-not-going-away-any-time-soon/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309198960_The_dark_side_of_meaning-making_How_social_exclusion_leads_to_superstitious_thinking The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Eldridge Colby, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BMYDNPN/ U.S. ‘Ambiguity’ on Taiwan Is Dangerous, https:...
Limited War vs Total War (10-28-21)
October 29, 2021 01:54 - 2 hours - 71.6 MB00:00 Australia vs Sri Lanka in World Series of T20 Cricket 03:00 David Warner's wife, https://crickettimes.com/2020/11/david-warners-wife-candice-opens-up-on-ugly-toilet-tryst-with-rugby-star-sonny-bill-williams/ 05:00 Andrew Cuomo charged over alleged groping of former aide, https://nypost.com/2021/10/28/andrew-cuomo-to-be-charged-over-alleged-groping-of-former-aide-source/ 07:00 Cuomo ‘groping’ accuser Brittany Commisso opens up in CBS interview, https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/andrew-cuomo...
The Charlottesville Trial (10-26-21)
October 27, 2021 02:16 - 2 hours - 79.9 MB00:00 Who turns radical? 03:00 The Charlottesville civil trial, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/26/us/charlottesville-lawsuit-civil-trial/index.html 20:30 Why Keeping the Focus on Yourself is the Antidote to Codependence, https://www.audible.com/pd/Why-Keeping-the-Focus-on-Yourself-is-the-Antidote-to-Codependence-Episode-102-Podcast/B091FT2LJ7?ref=a_pd_Fragme_c1_lAsin_3_5 35:00 Decoding the Gurus: Sam Harris & Meditation is all you need, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-epi...
How Should We Then Live? (10-24-21)
October 24, 2021 18:01 - 1 hour - 33.8 MBBetween Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142155 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Should_We_Then_Live https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/well/live/aspirin-heart-attack-stroke.html https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/shrooms-shamans-kosher-lsd-why-los-angeles-is-suddenly-tripping-out/ https://americanmind.org/audio/the-stakes-the-american-monarchy/ https://unherd.com/2021/10/the-triumph-of-americas-ruling-class/ htt...
Does America Need A Caesar? (10-22-21)
October 23, 2021 01:11 - 2 hours - 56.6 MB00:00 I'm back with my first big show in a month 02:00 Michael Anton and Curtis Yarvin say we're living in a regime, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime 03:00 Do you know that you are living in a dictatorship? 04:00 Michael Anton talks to Curtis Yarvin, The Stakes: The American Monarchy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8lNtIN7Us 05:00 Rodney Martin joins to discuss my recent video, The Right yearns for a caesar (10-18-21), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Pyi4LBQW0 07:00 The Left has beco...
Recovery From Underearning (10-22-21)
October 22, 2021 14:28 - 16 minutes - 7.74 MBEarn What You Deserve: How to Stop Underearning & Start Thriving, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140174 Debtors Anonymous, https://debtorsanonymous.org/ Underearners Anonymous, https://www.underearnersanonymous.org/ Financial Underearners Anonymous, https://www.financialunderearnersanonymous.org/ The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130903 Earn What You Deserve: How to Stop Underearning & Start Thriving, https://lukeford.net/...
America Is Not A Hell Hole - The Hole Is In Your Soul (10-18-21)
October 19, 2021 01:13 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBThe War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130903 Earn What You Deserve: How to Stop Underearning & Start Thriving, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140174 Democracy & Oligarchy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=137486 Our Problems Are Not Our Problems, They’re Just Symptoms Of Deeper Problems, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136900 Seeking external validation vs developing internal validation, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136247 The power ...
The Right Yearns For A Caesar (10-18-21)
October 18, 2021 23:46 - 35 minutes - 16 MBhttps://americanmind.org/audio/the-stakes-the-american-monarchy/ https://unherd.com/2021/10/the-triumph-of-americas-ruling-class/ https://theweek.com/politics/1003035/the-far-right-contemplates-an-american-caesar https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-us-national-strategy-countering-domestic-terrorism https://www.vox.com/22600500/olympics-conservatives-simone-biles-anti-american https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/dennis-prager-announces-he-has-covid-19-while-ranting-against-vaccines-and-...
How Talk Radio Makes People Worse (10-18-21)
October 18, 2021 23:46 - 15 minutes - 7.23 MBhttps://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/dennis-prager-announces-he-has-covid-19-while-ranting-against-vaccines-and-declaring The price of success in talk radio often means turning into a crank: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=85681 https://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/indexp2a.html My Corona Virus posts: https://lukeford.net/blog/?cat=42861 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@Luk...
Crossroads: Women And Divorce (10-17-21)
October 17, 2021 16:57 - 17 minutes - 7.94 MBhttps://ifstudies.org/blog/counterintuitive-trends-in-the-link-between-premarital-sex-and-marital-stability https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/books/review/jonathan-franzen-crossroads.html https://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/a29664529/adele-weight-loss/ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-15/another-blow-to-uc-admissions-tests-nix-sat-alternative-exam-faculty-recommend https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10092839/Nike-boss-Larry-Miller-reveals-murdered-boy-18-teen-gang.ht...
British MP Murdered, 10-17-21 News Roundup
October 17, 2021 16:04 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10100533/China-surprises-U-S-hypersonic-missile-test-FT-reports.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/australia-far-right-america.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/16/us/capitol-riot.html https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/17/nfl-jon-gruden-emails-only-offensive/ https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2021/10/was-sir-david-killed-due-to-his.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/nyregion/eric-adams-gifted-talented-nyc-schools.html https:...
China Has No Legal System Above Its Communist Party (10-13-21)
October 14, 2021 00:46 - 20 minutes - 9.46 MBhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/sports/soccer/china-soccer-evergrande.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_J._M._van_den_Aardweg https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mental-health-community-safety/2021/10/08/369794d0-26bd-11ec-a6ad-9ee7deda7f34_story.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Zemmour https://www.wsj.com/articles/baylor-university-college-debt-parent-plus-loans-11634138239?mod=hp_lead_pos5 https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijings-time-for-evergrande-choosing-china-xi...
Ron Unz Has A Theory, NFL Email Drama, Fox Hypocrisy With NYT (10-12-21)
October 13, 2021 00:17 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MBhttps://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2021-10-12/jon-gruden-resigns-raiders-coach-racist-homophobic-misogynist-nfl-scandal https://www.unz.com/isteve/like-all-oakland-raiders-fans-everywhere-i-am-shocked-shocked-to-learn-that-the-raiders-football-coach-made-coach-like-remarks-in-2011/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/new-york-times-right-is-new-york-times/ https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12/15/untold-super-bowl-barret-robbins-raiders Join this channel to get access to perks...
Raiders Coach Jon Gruden Fired For Racist Emails (10-11-21)
October 12, 2021 02:07 - 18 minutes - 8.62 MBNYT: In that email, Gruden, who is white and was working for ESPN at the time, criticized Smith’s intelligence and used a racist trope to describe his face. The correspondence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by The New York Times. Taken together, the emails provide an unvarnished look into the clubby culture of one N.F.L. circle of peers, where white male decision makers felt comfortable sharing pornographic images, deriding the league policies, and jocularly shar...
Where Is The Future Made? (10-11-21)
October 11, 2021 23:54 - 16 minutes - 7.48 MBhttps://thecinemaholic.com/is-the-billion-dollar-code-based-on-a-true-story/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/dallas-police-defund.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/sports/ncaafootball/michigan-abuse-bo-schembechler.html https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3151710/chinas-power-crisis-why-it-happening-how-bad-it-and-what-if Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https:/...
Bad Art Friend (10-10-21)
October 10, 2021 20:53 - 17 minutes - 8.13 MBhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/10/06/dawn-dorland-sonya-larson/ https://www.gawker.com/media/this-atlantic-writer-has-been-a-bad-bad-boy https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/facebook-who-is-the-bad-art-friend https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/08/bad-art-friend-book-world-genre-thrill-mean https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/bad-art-friend-dorland-larson/620321/ Join this channel to get acces...
Your Discipline (10-10-21)
October 10, 2021 18:23 - 11 minutes - 5.27 MBFrom Jonathan Franzen's new novel Crossroads: * He now saw that his supposed self-discipline, the outstanding study habits his parents and his teachers had always praised, had not been discipline at all. He’d excelled at school because he’d enjoyed learning things, not because he had superior willpower. As soon as Sharon introduced him to more intense forms of pleasure, he discovered how hopelessly undeveloped the muscles of his will really were. He found himself skipping organic chem lab fo...
The Bad Boss (10-10-21)
October 10, 2021 17:12 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MBhttps://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hollywood-media-mogul-degrading-boss-223009050.html https://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/sharon_waxman.htm https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/an-energy-crisis-is-gripping-the-world-with-potentially-grave-consequences/ar-AAPjcIE The New Jonathan Franzen Novel – Crossroads, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142122 To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142105, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/...
What Are The Spiritual Lessons Of Covid?(10-7-21)
October 08, 2021 00:35 - 43 minutes - 101 MBKim Knight: Humans and Viruses - The Bigger Picture? "What do we need to learn and change? Could there be a lesson for humanity? Let's take a look... Presentation for the Nursing Science Conference 2021." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-LGlM29f04 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleabag 12-Step Programs For Sex Addiction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=36642 My posts on addiction: https://lukeford.net/blog/?cat=26369 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...
This Is Great! (10-4-21)
October 06, 2021 19:38 - 8 minutes - 3.82 MBhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/books/review/joe-klein-explains-how-the-history-of-four-centuries-ago-still-shapes-american-culture-and-politics.html Joe Klein writes: One night in Soviet Moscow a long time ago, I walked through a feathery curtain of soft, fat snowflakes with a Russian friend. “This is great!” I shouted. And he said to me: “I wish I could smile the way you Americans do.” His parents had taught him that any stray public emotion could lead to the gulag. With the blatant exc...
The F—- Joe Biden Chants (10-6-21)
October 06, 2021 19:38 - 21 minutes - 10 MBhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/opinion/trump-voters-2020-election.html "It may seem ironic that authoritarianism, a belief system that entails sacrifice of personal freedom to a strong leader, would influence the experience of meaning in life through its promotion of feelings of personal significance. Yet right-wing authoritarianism does provide a person with a place in the world, as a loyal follower of a strong leader. In addition, compared to purpose and coherence, knowing with great ce...
It’s 1984! The Elites Want To Control Us & Dominate Us!
October 03, 2021 03:59 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBhttps://futurism.com/the-byte/china-population-half-30-years https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/california-covid-cases.html To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq, https://www.amazon.com/Start-War-Bush-Administration-America-ebook/dp/B07ZC6WX1T/ https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ My Corona Virus posts: https://lukeford.net/blog/?cat=42861 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/ Join this channe...
Trump Supporter Holocaust! It's The Purge! (10 - 2-21)
October 03, 2021 03:59 - 8 minutes - 4.11 MBhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-takes-quick-unexplained-california-trip-reports https://futurism.com/the-byte/china-population-half-30-years https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/california-covid-cases.html To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq, https://www.amazon.com/Start-War-Bush-Administration-America-ebook/dp/B07ZC6WX1T/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Draper https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ My Corona Virus posts: https://luk...
The Rise Of The Secular Gurus (9-30-21)
October 01, 2021 02:24 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MBThe Age of Secular Gurus | Robert Wright, Matthew Browne, & Christopher Kavanagh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6jddKAUVfw https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ 50 Rightist Lies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCXI6KxPmsw "Being a guru is a social role: a guru is only a guru if there are people who regard them as such! How gurus interact with their followers and critics, their in-group and out-group, is often quite revealing. Gurus are not usually bonafide cult-leaders. However, the ...
Pompous Luke (9-27-21)
September 28, 2021 00:49 - 52 minutes - 23.8 MB05:00 Moral Acrobatics: How We Avoid Ethical Ambiguity by Thinking in Black and White, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142074 07:00 Lives on the Edge: Profiles in Sex, Love and Death, https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/luke-ford/lives-on-the-edge-profiles-in-sex-love-and-death/paperback/product-19qmzrv.html?page=1&pageSize=4 10:00 Holly Randall: Jasmin St. Claire: America's Most Controversial Sex Symbol, https://youtu.be/DRgxPfT4vdo?t=1446 29:00 The psychology of internet fame, https://www.outsidet...
Trump 2024 (9-26-21)
September 26, 2021 18:10 - 1 hour - 36.5 MB00:00 WP: Our constitutional crisis is already here, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/ 06:00 LEAKED GRANT PROPOSAL DETAILS HIGH-RISK CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH, https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/ 10:00 Why you feel tired all the time, https://time.com/6099133/why-you-feel-tired-all-the-time/ 12:00 12 Mindless Habits That Are Secretly Exhausting You, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/habits-exhausting-you_l_61489344...
'Academia Is Establishing A Permanent Surveillance Bureaucracy That Will Soon Govern The Rest Of Us'
September 24, 2021 17:01 - 15 minutes - 6.87 MBhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/technology/facebook-australia-comments.html Michael Tracey writes: Just like Connecticut College and so many other institutions I’ve been taking flurries of messages about, Columbia has already mandated vaccination for all students, faculty, and staff, and is approaching 100% compliance. But as has now been made abundantly clear, for many people in positions of bureaucratic authority, universal vaccination was never going to be sufficient for a transition a...
Successful & Happy People Are Often More Trusting Than Losers
September 24, 2021 17:00 - 9 minutes - 4.24 MBYou can't be happy and successful without the ability to trust the right people. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Listener Call In #: 1-310-997-4596 Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/lu...
Howard Stern, The New Abortion Wars, Afghanistan, Australia's Covid Lockdown (9-23-21)
September 24, 2021 01:51 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/world/australia/covid-lockdowns-freedom.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/abortion-evangelicals-conservatives.html https://nypost.com/2021/04/27/howard-stern-has-lost-his-sting-and-his-mojo/ Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140864 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFo...
Religion In Secular Society: Fifty Years On II (9-19-21)
September 19, 2021 16:47 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBInside Amy Schumer - Football Town Nights (ft. Josh Charles), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2RUVnTlvs Why there is no way back for religion in the West | David Voas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtAR_OGzlcg https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Secular-Society-Fifty-Years-ebook/dp/B01M19WZ78/ "People’s religious orientations to the world occur within a wider social context with which they interact in highly complex ways. It would be impossible to ignore the growth of new channels for emot...
Religion in Secular Society: Fifty Years On (9-18-21)
September 19, 2021 16:47 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MBWhy there is no way back for religion in the West | David Voas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtAR_OGzlcg https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Secular-Society-Fifty-Years-ebook/dp/B01M19WZ78/ "Religious thinking, religious practices and religious institutions were once at the very centre of the life of Western society, as indeed of all societies. That there were, even in the seventeenth, and certainly in the eighteenth and nineteenth, centuries many unchurched people to whom religious practice...
Alt Medicine (9-17-21)
September 19, 2021 16:46 - 8 minutes - 3.7 MBDiagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine: Here are some highlights from this 2009 book: * Americans are besieged by advice about the efficacy of medical therapies and drugs as well as behavioral and dietary modifications that will presumably prevent disease, promote health, and extend longevity. Scarcely a day passes without revelations about new medical breakthroughs that will presumably overcome the ravages of age-old diseases. Faith in medical progress lea...
The Best Hedge Against Inflation (9-15-21)
September 15, 2021 22:31 - 22 minutes - 10.4 MBhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/opinion/abortion-evangelicals-conservatives.html Thomas B. Edsall writes: Whites who score high on measures of racial resentment and racial grievance are far more likely to support strict limits on abortion than whites who score low on these measures. This is part of a larger picture in which racial attitudes are increasingly linked with opinions on a wide range of disparate issues including social welfare issues, gun control, immigration and even climate c...
Healing A Person Vs Healing The Symptoms (9-12-21)
September 12, 2021 17:10 - 28 minutes - 13 MBThere are some symptoms you want to focus on such as a broken leg, sleep apnea, etc, and then there are times you want to focus on healing the person rather than get distracted by the symptoms. Kim Knight: https://www.kimknighthealth.com/tag/cfs/ 12-Step Programs For Sex Addiction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=36642 Bringing Souls Out Of Hiding, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130933 The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130914 Wh...
What's Normal? Reconciling Biology And Culture (9-12-21)
September 12, 2021 14:12 - 21 minutes - 9.85 MBAllan V. Horwitz writes: Contemporary developed societies are the safest, healthiest, and most prosperous that have ever existed, so we might expect that their citizens would have low levels of fearfulness. “Hasn’t one of the central accomplishments of modern civilization,” Norwegian philosopher Lars Svendson asks, “been the overall reduction of fear, by nighttime electrical lighting, insurance policies, police forces, standing armies, the destruction of predatory animals, lightning rods on c...