PhD History Student Matt "History Speaks" On The Middle East Conflict (6-19-24)

01:00 Matt's substack, https://historyspeaks.substack.com/
03:00 Matt's Twitter, https://x.com/History__Speaks
09:00 Realism vs moralism in international conflict
21:00 The sources of our self-esteem
26:00 The seasons of a man's life
27:00 Matt is a lawyer (University of Chicago)
29:00 Why did Luke never marry?
31:00 Luke diagnosed with ADHD, Matt with obsessive-compulsive disorder
33:50 Enlightenment means respect for fact
42:00 The buffered identity vs the porous identity, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149512
53:00 The invention of racism as a moral category
57:00 Luke & Matt share their hero systems
1:00:00 That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138784
1:02:50 Matt's activist Twitter feed, https://x.com/History__Speaks
1:05:00 How Matt has been changed by studying law
1:13:00 Matt's asked about serious thinkers who are Zionists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris
1:18:00 JPOST: Experts: ICC, UN blamed Israel for a famine that never happened in Gaza - exclusive, https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-806735
1:26:00 Everything, including the category of civilian, is contingent
1:35:00 The “Good War”: Preparations for a War against Civilians, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155491
1:53:00 Human rights, https://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/indexp2a.html
2:00:00 AP: The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more, https://apnews.com/article/gaza-palestinians-families-israel-war-deaths-a9f8bcfe402c17f1f78903eae67b7a7d
2:03:00 BBC: 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours', https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67327079
2:15:00 Black September, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
2:20:00 No, we're not in a new cold war with China, https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/07/cold-war-cold-peace-united-states-china-xi-decoupling-trade/
2:30:00 The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142846
2:37:00 Matt's first published scholarly article - did the Nazis plan world genocides? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17504902.2024.2326262
2:42:50 College protests for Palestine
2:45:00 Mearsheimer: ‘Israelis wouldn’t mind a general conflagration because that would facilitate ethnic cleansing.’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=153903
2:48:00 Israeli morale has plunged over the past three months
2:52:00 Ze'ev Jabotinsky - serious Zionist thinker, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Jabotinsky
2:55:00 Matt's substack, https://historyspeaks.substack.com/
2:57:30 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid
3:22:00 BBC: 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours', https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67327079
3:36:00 A Short History of International Humanitarian Law, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155471
4:13:00 Elliott Blatt joins, discusses Juneteenth
4:15:00 Why can't black pride and gay pride work together?
4:20:00 Human rights as a Marxist motte-and-bailey trick, https://quillbot.com/blog/motte-and-bailey-fallacy/
4:29:00 The reorganization of priorities after a tough illness
Complete transcript of the show: https://lukeford.net/blog/?page_id=155712
Is Israel Committing Genocide? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155365
Who determines the winning narrative? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155583
Decoding Christian Nationalism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155459
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/18/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-conflict-war-border-gaza/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-05/leimert-park-juneteenth-festival-postponed-over-safety-concerns
WSJ: The ICC Betrays the Legacy of Nuremberg, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-icc-betrays-the-legacy-of-nuremberg-c44d850f
Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917, https://www.amazon.com/Revolutions-International-Law-Legacies-1917/dp/1108495036
Who determines the winning narrative?
https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155583
Christian nationalism as niche construction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155459
Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155559
The “Good War”: Preparations for a War against Civilians, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155491
A Short History of International Humanitarian Law, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155471
Discourse, Reality, and the Culture of Combat, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155514
The Genesis of the Civilian, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155545
LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
Electronic Intifada: How the Gaza genocide will lead to Israel's collapse, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/07/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-evangelical-appeal-00156488
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/quit-being-a-cynic-at-work-its-holding-you-back-0f4bd40f?mod=hp_lead_pos8
The Far Right’s New ‘Badge of Honor’, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/06/doxxing-far-right-influencers-anonymity/678645/
WSJ: Quit Being a Cynic at Work. It’s Holding You Back., https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/quit-being-a-cynic-at-work-its-holding-you-back-0f4bd40f?mod=hp_lead_pos8
Problematic, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=155417
NR: The Lancet: You Are ‘Hardly Human’ If You Don’t Believe in the International Community, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-lancet-you-are-hardly-human-if-you-dont-believe-in-the-international-community/
When the CIA messes up, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/the-cia-an-imperial-history-hugh-wilford-book-review
California moving right on crime, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/06/california-criminal-justice-gavin-newsom/678631/
The Atlantic: America’s Loneliness Has a Concrete Explanation, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/dining-rooms-us-homes-apartments/678633/
NYT: The Success Narratives of Liberal Life Leave Little Room for Having Children, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/opinion/natalism-liberalism-parenthood.html
Trashing constitution for civil rights law? https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-06-10/biden-is-old-trump-is-elderly-too-but-only-one-of-them-would-trash-the-constitution

Highlights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143746
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