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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20th Anniversary Of 9-11
September 12, 2021 05:15 - 1 hour - 52 MB00:00 My experience of 9-11 02:00 PBS Frontline documentary, America After 9-11, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/america-after-9-11/ 48:00 Washington Post on 9-11 conspiracy theories, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2021/911-conspiracy-theories/ 58:00 WSJ: Why There Hasn’t Been Another 9/11, https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-there-hasnt-been-another-9-11-11631332860?mod=hp_lead_pos9 1:07:30 Based Takes: Kenneth Brown: Intellectual Savior of the Dissident movement, h...
WASPs: The Splendors And Miseries Of An American Aristocracy (9-6-21)
September 07, 2021 01:21 - 12 minutes - 5.68 MBhttps://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141932, https://www.amazon.com/WASPS-Splendors-Miseries-American-Aristocracy/dp/1643137069/ "What distinguished the WASP neurasthenic was his (or her) consciousness of unused powers in the soul that he (or she) sought to discharge in civic and creative activity. You see it most clearly in Henry Adams, who adopted the pose of a neurasthenic weakling oppressed by his New England heritage, looking on life rather than living it, and doomed to fail in an America that ...
How Postmodernism Explains Football, And Football Explains Postmodernism The Billy Clyde Conundrum
September 06, 2021 21:26 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBSemi-Tough (1977) Burt Reynolds: Billy Clyde Puckett, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078227/characters/nm0000608 https://www.ou.edu/gaylord/people/faculty/robert-kerr/Robert_Kerr2 Robert L. Kerr, The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio: A Descriptive Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan: New York, N.Y., 2017). Robert L. Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football, and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum (Palgrave MacMillan: New York, N.Y., 2015). "Mark Bowden’s account of superstar l...
The Sociology Of Sports-Talk Radio (9-6-21)
September 06, 2021 20:05 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MBBud: "Luke, because your intro to Carl Schmitt, I no longer believe in Democracy, Human Rights or the Constitution. You should be kvelling with pride!" Perhaps a thru-line to some of what I do is to create a little more space between people and their favorite stories. Ask: Why do I love this text? This interpretation? This story? Why do I hate this competing narrative? Why do I need to ignore all alternatives to my story? Why do I cling to my story? https://www.ou.edu/gaylord/people/facult...
Argutainment (9-5-21)
September 05, 2021 16:13 - 2 hours - 61.8 MBFairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140864 Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140195 Ears Wide Shut: Epistemological Populism, Argutainment and Canadian Conservative Talk Radio, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140195 Talk about receiving, giving, and taking in radio interviews: ‘doing modesty’ and ‘making a virtue out of necessity’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141865 A P...
It's Easy To Dismiss Information You Don't Understand (9-3-21)
September 03, 2021 22:41 - 7 minutes - 3.25 MBIt's Easy To Dismiss Information You Don't Understand (9-3-21) by Luke Ford
You Can’t Pray Your Way Out Of A Problem You Behaved Your Way Into (9-3-21)
September 03, 2021 22:40 - 14 minutes - 6.77 MBThere is not usually a religious answer to a biological problem just as there is not usually a psychological answer to a mechanical problem. Religion and psychology don't automatically work against addiction. 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://ent...
Life Is A Status Game (9-3-21)
September 03, 2021 22:40 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MBEd West writes: Life is a status game, and Storr identifies three methods by which we reach the top: dominance, competence and virtue (although most people use a combination of two or all three). It is the last of these which is the most interesting, and sometimes the most dangerous, inspiring immense cruelty. Status is extremely important to wellbeing, so much so that it can have a profound effect on our health. People more successful in their careers tend to live longer, even taking into a...
Why The News Is Bad For You (9-1-21)
September 01, 2021 21:59 - 22 minutes - 10.1 MBhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli "News is irrelevant. Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that – because you consumed it – allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career or your business. The point is: the consumption of news is irrelevant to you. But people find it very difficult to recognise what's relevant. It's much easier to recognise what's new. Th...
How The U.S. Census Misleads On Race (8-30-21)
August 30, 2021 22:01 - 21 minutes - 9.88 MBhttps://unherd.com/2021/08/is-this-the-end-of-white-america/ Eric Kaufman: "But the big demographic story of the 2010s wasn’t about White Americans, but the big drop in Hispanic fertility, which is rapidly converging with the more stable white rate. So even while the share of “unmixed” whites will probably dip below 50% by 2050, the share who are considered socially white is likely to be a majority into the foreseeable future." "One of the few seeking to dispel such illusions is leading Amer...
Is Depression Just A Chemical Imbalance? (8-29-21)
August 30, 2021 00:43 - 19 minutes - 8.93 MBThe Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder, https://www.amazon.com/Loss-Sadness-Psychiatry-Transformed-Depressive-ebook/dp/B001CHRHHO/ "Nonhuman primates show a clear resemblance to humans in the way they respond to loss—that is, in their observable features of expression, behavior, and brain functioning. As Darwin noted, apes and humans show similar facial expressions in situations that are associated with sadness, including elevated eyebrows, dro...
Am I a bad person? Jews & The American Soul (8-29-21)
August 29, 2021 15:59 - 1 hour - 37.6 MBhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Destutt_de_Tracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/caitlin-flanagan-secret-of-surviving-cancer/619844/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter Jews in the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141689 https://en.wikipedia....
Understanding Vs Judgment (8-27-21)
August 29, 2021 11:34 - 6 minutes - 3.01 MBJudgment and understanding are different modes of life, just like work and play and worship and skepticism. No mode is inherently superior. Every mode comes with benefits and prices. 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/lukef...
The Loss Of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder
August 27, 2021 00:38 - 28 minutes - 13 MBhttps://www.amazon.com/Loss-Sadness-Psychiatry-Transformed-Depressive-ebook/dp/B001CHRHHO/r "Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by a massive upsurge in the consumption of antidepressant medication, widespread screening for depression i...
What Are The Evolutionary Benefits Of Depression? (8-26-21)
August 27, 2021 00:37 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MBhttps://www.amazon.com/Loss-Sadness-Psychiatry-Transformed-Depressive-ebook/dp/B001CHRHHO/r "Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by a massive upsurge in the consumption of antidepressant medication, widespread screening for depression i...
Ridin’ With Biden After The Kabul Air Port Suicide Bombings Kill 12 US Soldiers (8-26-21)
August 26, 2021 22:37 - 33 minutes - 80.9 MBhttps://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/26/world/afghanistan-taliban-biden-news https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-26/lab-leak-theory-origin-covid-19 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/a-science-in-the-shadows/ https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/2021/08/globalization-and-nationalism.html Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://ru...
When The Anglo Began To Self-Hate (8-24-21)
August 24, 2021 22:05 - 23 minutes - 10.7 MBWhiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141443 * In 1924, mainline Protestant clergy were almost unanimous in their opposition to immigration restriction. However, their liberal activism was out of step with the views of their parishioners. * The Young Intellectuals [of Greenwich Village 1912-1917] were Anglo-American bohemian artists and writers rebelling against their own Protestant culture. Inspired by Nietzsche and Bergson’s ro...
Diagnosis, Therapy, And Evidence Conundrums In Modern American Medicine II
August 24, 2021 00:14 - 18 minutes - 8.35 MBDiagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine, https://www.amazon.com/Diagnosis-Therapy-Evidence-Conundrums-American-ebook/dp/B0037CFD8C/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/world/europe/afghanistan-europe-nato-biden.html 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 ...
Diagnosis, Therapy, And Evidence Conundrums In Modern American Medicine III
August 24, 2021 00:14 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MBDiagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine, https://www.amazon.com/Diagnosis-Therapy-Evidence-Conundrums-American-ebook/dp/B0037CFD8C/ https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ive-worked-refugees-decades-europes-afghan-crime-wave-mind-21506?page=0%2C2 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/lukeford...
Politicians Act In Their Self - Interest, And Soldiers Often Die For Vanity Projects (Light)
August 23, 2021 02:53 - 7 minutes - 3.61 MBFrom a Yale Law paper: If Americans know one thing about their system of government, it is that they live in a democracy and that other, less fortunate people, live in dictatorships. Dictatorships are what democracies are not, the very opposite of representative government under a constitution. The opposition between democracy and dictatorship, however, is greatly overstated. The term “dictatorship,” after all, began as a special constitutional office of the Roman Republic, granting a singl...
Politicians Act In Their Self-Interest, And Soldiers Often Die For Vanity Projects (Light)
August 23, 2021 02:53 - 7 minutes - 3.61 MBFrom a Yale Law paper: If Americans know one thing about their system of government, it is that they live in a democracy and that other, less fortunate people, live in dictatorships. Dictatorships are what democracies are not, the very opposite of representative government under a constitution. The opposition between democracy and dictatorship, however, is greatly overstated. The term “dictatorship,” after all, began as a special constitutional office of the Roman Republic, granting a singl...
Steve Sailer: 'Why Did The Taliban Win Because They Live There.' (Light)
August 23, 2021 02:52 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBhttps://www.outsidethebeltway.com/who-lost-afghanistan/ https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/biden-blamed-for-afghan-fiasco/ https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/2021/08/kabullshit.html https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan From Wikipedia: US energy independence is the idea of eliminating the need for the United States to import petroleum and other foreign sources of energy. Energy independence is espoused by those who want to leave the US unaffected by global energy supply disruptions, and to restr...
Historicism And Hill Street Blues, Major Depressive Disorder, Afghan Refugees
August 23, 2021 02:24 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series) https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-do-we-shout-when-we-argue-lack-of-confidence-11629518461 DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible, https://www.wsj.com/articles/dsm-review-the-meanings-of-madness-11629062194 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sarno Author Steven Pressfield tells author Tim Ferriss about ...
Diagnosis, Therapy, And Evidence Conundrums In Modern American Medicine
August 20, 2021 23:21 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MB00:00 Only Fans bans porn, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/porn-site-onlyfans-bans-porn/ 03:00 The Children of Pornhub, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html 04:00 Why Do We Let Corporations Profit From Rape Videos?, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/opinion/sunday/companies-online-rape-videos.html 08:30 Israel, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of Infections, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/world/middleeast/israel-virus-infectio...
The Awkward Angle (8-17-21)
August 19, 2021 23:21 - 4 minutes - 2.18 MBI muse about some things I learned here: https://www.emotionalalchemyacademy.com/ https://www.kimknighthealth.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/artofhealth1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sarno Author Steven Pressfield tells author Tim Ferriss about his time working in a halfway house for people released from mental asylums: “They weren’t crazy at all. They were the smart people who had seen through the bullshit and because of that they couldn’t function in the world. They couldn’t hol...
Health Beliefs (8-19-21)
August 19, 2021 23:20 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MBI muse about some things I learned here: https://www.emotionalalchemyacademy.com/ https://www.kimknighthealth.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/artofhealth1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sarno Author Steven Pressfield tells author Tim Ferriss about his time working in a halfway house for people released from mental asylums: “They weren’t crazy at all. They were the smart people who had seen through the bullshit and because of that they couldn’t function in the world. They couldn’t hol...
The CDC Confuses Americans On Masks (8-16-21)
August 17, 2021 00:51 - 21 minutes - 9.69 MBhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-herd-provincetown-mayo-delta-mask-mandate-vaccine-passport-cdc-mucosal-immunity-11629128219?mod=opinion_lead_pos6 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-16/doctors-coronavirus-misinformation-license https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/08/11/physicians-who-promote-covid-19-and-antivaccine-misinformation-should-lose-their-medical-license/ USA TODAY: Fact check: Yes, viruses can mut...
Steve Sailer 'Why Did The Taliban Win? Because They Live There.' (8-16-21)
August 16, 2021 23:22 - 54 minutes - 397 MBhttps://www.outsidethebeltway.com/who-lost-afghanistan/ https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/biden-blamed-for-afghan-fiasco/ https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/2021/08/kabullshit.html https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan From Wikipedia: US energy independence is the idea of eliminating the need for the United States to import petroleum and other foreign sources of energy. Energy independence is espoused by those who want to leave the US unaffected by global energy supply disruptions, and to restr...
Politicians Act In Their Self-Interest, And Soldiers Often Die For Vanity Projects
August 16, 2021 23:19 - 7 minutes - 60 MBFrom a Yale Law paper: If Americans know one thing about their system of government, it is that they live in a democracy and that other, less fortunate people, live in dictatorships. Dictatorships are what democracies are not, the very opposite of representative government under a constitution. The opposition between democracy and dictatorship, however, is greatly overstated. The term “dictatorship,” after all, began as a special constitutional office of the Roman Republic, granting a singl...
Brave New World - A 1932 Novel By Aldous Huxley (8-15-21)
August 15, 2021 23:39 - 1 hour - 41.3 MB00:00 Luke's reaction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141775 03:00 Richard's Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE0dJw8SfA_PUNmyu_1ywdA 08:00 The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2017/07/notes-on-eternal-vigilance-is-price-of.html 09:40 How dehumanized are we today? 31:10 Is America a dystopia? 36:30 To what extent are we living in Brave New World? 49:00 Work in Brave New World 53:00 The caste system 57:00 Brave New World as a sa...
Nazis Next Door (8-15-21)
August 15, 2021 15:47 - 21 minutes - 9.8 MBMAJOR INVESTIGATION: Targeting Australia’s largest neo-Nazi group | 60 Minutes Australia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804CxkmnxLY https://www.smh.com.au/national/threat-of-white-power-race-war-grave-concern-to-asio-says-chief-20210812-p58i9u.html, https://www.smh.com.au/national/threat-of-white-power-race-war-grave-concern-to-asio-says-chief-20210812-p58i9u.html Inside Racism HQ: How home-grown neo-Nazis are plotting a white revolution, https://www.smh.com.au/national/inside-racism-hq-how...
Brave New World (8-15-21)
August 15, 2021 14:33 - 29 minutes - 13.4 MBhttps://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141775 * At the end of the book, I had nothing. I had no comments. I had no reactions. I didn't laugh or cry or have any strong emotional or intellectual reaction during the book. It did not remind me of problems we face today. I've had to work harder to come up with comments on this book than any other book I remember. I guess the book did not remind me of anything, it did not trigger me, or stimulate me. It just felt like reading someone's intellectual exercise....
Talking With Joseph Cotto About Covid-19 and the Right (8-12-21)
August 13, 2021 01:02 - 1 hour - 50 MBHow did the American Right react to Covid? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141721 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/doctors-blame-right-wing-media-eroding-trust-during-pandemic-n1251221 Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00977-7 The role of ideological attitudes in responses to COVID-19 threat and government restrictions in Australia, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7867395...
Covid And The Right (8-12-21)
August 12, 2021 20:24 - 23 minutes - 10.5 MBHow did the American Right react to Covid? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141721 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/doctors-blame-right-wing-media-eroding-trust-during-pandemic-n1251221 Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00977-7 The role of ideological attitudes in responses to COVID-19 threat and government restrictions in Australia, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7867395...
Anti-Gentilism - The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name (8-11- 21)
August 12, 2021 00:25 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MBhttps://quillette.com/2021/08/11/twilight-of-the-satyrs/ Charlotte Allen writes: Gentiles were also among Roth’s lifelong fixations as antagonists. He was ever on the alert for anti-Semitism, both real and imagined. He even classified Bloom, herself Jewish, as an anti-Semite; apparently, it was fine for Roth to rib his fellow Jews, but not Bloom. As an undergraduate at Bucknell University he found it “especially hateful” (Bailey’s words) that Bucknell during the 1950s required its students t...
What Unites Vaccine And Election Cranks? (8-10-21)
August 10, 2021 23:51 - 37 minutes - 17 MBMike Lindell's con is winding down, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/10/con-is-winding-down/ The pandemic productivity boom, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/upshot/will-the-pandemic-productivity-boom-last.html See the Data on Breakthrough Covid Hospitalizations and Deaths by State, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-breakthrough-infections-vaccines.html New numbers from the CDC suggest fully vaccinated people remain protected against hospitalization and ...
The Power Of Negative Thinking (8-9-21)
August 10, 2021 20:29 - 9 minutes - 4.54 MBhttp://www.mickeltherapy.com/ 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/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford...
Andrew Cuomo Resigns & What Is Moral Character (8 - 10 - 21)
August 10, 2021 20:28 - 13 minutes - 6.29 MBhttps://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/ryan-adams/ https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/cuomo-michael-tracey Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior by John M. Doris, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139670: * I regard this renaissance of virtue with concern. Like many others, I find the lore of virtue deeply compelling, yet I cannot help noticing that much of this lore rests on psychological theory that is some 2,500 years old. A theory is not bad simply because it is old, but...
What Must A Jew Believe? II (8-8-21)
August 08, 2021 18:10 - 1 hour - 54.7 MB00:00 R. Daniel Sperber on True Orthodoxy vs. Ultra Orthodoxy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE0CDQ_TEXw 10:00 Doooovid joins, https://twitter.com/RebDoooovid 11:00 The Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences, https://consciousness.arizona.edu/about-conference 15:00 Doooovid quit marijuana two months ago 17:00 Best Hindu temples in Farmington, MI, https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Hindu+Temples&find_loc=Farmington+Hills%2C+MI 18:00 Minyan closes for lack of air conditioning 24:00 Doo...
Principles Over Personalities (8-6-21)
August 07, 2021 00:16 - 17 minutes - 7.82 MBJust For Today: "Principles before personalities." Many of us chant these words along with the reader whenever the Twelve Traditions are read. The fact that these words have become a cliche of sorts doesn't make them any less important, either in service or in our lives. These words are an affirmation: "We listen to our conscience and do what's right, no matter who's involved." And that principle serves as one of the cornerstones of recovery as well as our traditions. What does "principles b...
HBO's Alex Gibney Doco Crime of the Century (8-5-21)
August 06, 2021 03:52 - 1 hour - 30.7 MBThe Opium Wars: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=70956 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-crime-of-the-century-tv-review-2021 What would America have been like without slavery? https://www.takimag.com/article/alternative-america/ Peter Zeihan on the geo-politics of Latin America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrNWPltr6g Covid deaths in 2021: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101932/coronavirus-covid19-cases-and-deaths-number-us-americans/ https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-...
Jews In The American Historical Profession (8-4-21)
August 05, 2021 02:04 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBThat Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138784 The Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=75654 Harry Levin. Portrait of a Scholar as Young Man, https://lukeford.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/kwg6tc1590003947.pdf Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136100 Jews In The American Academy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?...
HBO’s Small Town News & That Noble Dream - The 'Objectivity Question' (8-3-21)
August 04, 2021 01:20 - 53 minutes - 24.4 MB00:00 HBO’s Small Town News works because it adores, not mocks, its cast and their commitment, https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2021/08/small-town-news-hbo-review/ 03:00 ‘Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump’ Spotlights One of the Last Independent TV Stations, https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2021/08/small-town-news-hbo-review/ 08:00 The “Objective Facts” of Journalism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140236 10:00 That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical ...
After Our Clashes, Novelist Andy Nowicki And I Are Both Strengthened In Our Worldviews
August 03, 2021 03:37 - 9 minutes - 4.54 MBAndy Nowicki: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDFMuRPjyGo25j81EQyVVcA Am I a laughing stock? The answer might shock you. (7-17-21) https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141266 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...
Dragon Day by Matthew Pegas (8-2-21)
August 03, 2021 03:13 - 1 hour - 30.6 MB00:00 Why did Matt write this novel? https://terrorhousepress.com/product/dragon-day/ 01:40 Matt's journey in Los Angeles 03:00 Stark Truth TV doco Supply, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RsdT5fADDU 17:00 Could a happy man write this book? 26:00 Novel's three main characters 31:30 UCLA in 1988, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCzkOHdFPGE 48:10 Matt's core of wholesomeness 49:15 Matt's experience of Los Angeles 1:00:00 God 1:02:00 The current Pope https://mattpegas.substack.com/ Join this...
Is Ad Hominen A Logical Fallacy When Applied To Internet Debates? (8-2-21)
August 02, 2021 23:23 - 1 hour - 30.4 MB08:00 That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138784 10:00 Ad hominem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem 15:00 John Locke, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke 32:00 Argument from authority, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority 48:00 Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadotte_Everly_Schmitt Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS...
Robert Stark's Case For Right-Wing Multiculturalism (8-1-21)
August 02, 2021 03:23 - 1 hour - 34.3 MB00:00 Robert Stark's Substack, https://robertstark.substack.com/ 03:00 Robert Stark's political centrism 05:30 Robert's experience with the Covid pandemic 19:00 California governor recall 20:00 Larry Elder's prospects to become governor 36:30 Cal-Exit 56:45 Cape Independence and shared California values, https://robertstark.substack.com/p/cape-independence-and-shared-california 1:01:00 David Cole Stein and the gospel of Mel Gibson 1:03:00 People ruining their lives with conspiracy theories ...
Rabbi Judas Maccabeus Debates Dooovid About Jews Debating Nazis (8-1-21)
August 01, 2021 19:36 - 3 hours - 92.9 MB00:00 Rabbi Judas, a West Bank Sephardi settler, joins from Israel, https://twitter.com/JudasMaccabeus7 02:00 Jewish philosopher, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides 04:00 Saadia Gaon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadia_Gaon 06:00 Argument from Authority, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority 13:00 Hasidic Judaism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasidic_Judaism 14:00 Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles Reappraised, https://www.amazon.com/Limits-O...
I Want Excitement (7-30-21)
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I Don’t Like Change (7-30-21)
July 31, 2021 01:10 - 21 minutes - 9.71 MBJoin 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/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www...