"Just as fire drives out fire, so an elite is only driven out by another elite."

Fabulous trailer for Academic Agent's new book, The Populist Delusion.

2 minutes.

https://youtu.be/NM9A9txZ2mw

Reading AA's The Populist Delusion and Pareto's lions vs. foxes puts me in mind of David & Solomon respectively.

David is a fierce warrior himself but there are also The Three and the other mighty men.

Solomon as the ultimate fox should be obvious.

https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/whitfield/david's_mighty_men.htm#:~:text=David%20formed%20a%20military%20staff%20out%20of%20this,third%2C%20Shammah%20the%20son%20of%20Agee%2C%20the%20Hararite.

David's general Joab is referred to by one bible scholar as a "thug".

https://kingori.co/systematic-theology/people/joab-son-of-zeruiah/

Most spectacular gaffe ever?

“Michael Kinsley once defined a gaffe as inadvertently telling the truth.”

Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

kek

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot edit,
courage to edit the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.

It was global news when a McDonald's opened up in Moscow in 1990 in the Soviet Union. Now McDonald's has closed 850 outlets throughout Russia. What changed?

Join us for this story and more!

With Ryan Turnipseed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQ49erZWUU

Just found out Vangelis died.

This is in my very short playlist: Perfect Songs.

https://youtu.be/u1KfOMkyU_w

If you like the Mrs. RadLib streams then you won’t want to miss this discussion of CS Lewis's great novel that includes my wife and me.

Don’t miss the short trailer!

https://youtu.be/Q8THKovagBk

Where is the land of the free?

A grim tour of the Anglosphere by Andy Nowicki.

https://youtu.be/0T5V3zsuRd4

“Where men are forbidden to honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead -- even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served -- deny it food and it will gobble poison.”

– CS Lewis

http://www.tlchrist.info/cs_lewis.htm

Haven’t watched it yet, but I have confidence from AA's extraordinary skill at scholarship that I will learn many new things whether I agree with his conclusions or not.

Academic Agent's video on slavery was— to be honest, not bad. One of the things that does impress me about him is that he can, in just a few days put together a (relatively) good overview of just about any topic in less time than most graduate specialists can.

Mrs RadLib and me will be discussing the epic novel by CS Lewis with Nathan and Amy.

In one hour!

https://youtu.be/Y2rAaOacUMw

Francis Schaeffer produced a documentary back in the early 70’s titled “How Shall We Then Live” - I watched the entire series (I think it was 8 or 9 episodes at around 30 min. in length) on Amazon Prime (US) last year. Highly recommend. So relevant to what is happening today. The episodes on media and AI are especially interesting. Too bad so few heeded the warnings 50 years ago.

"I am calling for a 10 Year Foreign Aid Moratorium.
ZERO foreign aid until we can get our own country back on track."

– Andrew Torba

https://news.gab.com/2022/05/20/its-time-for-a-10-year-foreign-aid-moratorium/

Tonight is the 7yo twin’s turn to pick a movie for family movie night.

So of course they pick a moody, existential film about man and nature with no dialogue.

The Red Turtle (2016)