I come from a family of lawyers, they are trained sophists. If you have an understanding of logical fallacies you can run circles around them, they proceed to get angry and attempt to tone police you. They almost always have no sound arguments for what they say.
Really well done. Thanks for sharing this apparently buried information. I had never heard of any of the events you covered, which could just mean I personally have been living under a rock but I suspect these world-shaping historical cases and their details aren't widely known, for a reason.
If I can make a request, I'm sure i’m not the only one who’s impressed by your skill in finding and explicating history, if you could share tips at some point about how you’ve been able to develop your ability and talent in researching and understanding the past, I’m sure (sentient) people (paid subscribers) would love to hear whatever advice you have.
You mentioned “slowing down” in I think your recent big write-up about problems the right faces today. If you could even devote just a couple minutes in a podcast episode expanding your thoughts on that and how you mean, that would be really cool. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Quick side note, the average person’s education at every grade and level is so impoverished that it seems like self-educating and re-building the infrastructure to provide basic important grounding knowledge, as opposed to factoid trivia “islands” as you’ve called them, is needed more than ever
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea that had every happened but its not a shock. Its like the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. I'm sure similar events have played out many times over in the past few decades but we will probably never hear most of those stories.
I reenrolled at a large UC recently. My (very progressive) history of california teacher did briefly touch on the LA times bombing, but this info on clarence darrow was not shared.
Love bits of history like this that are completely brushed away that in retrospect do a lot to reshape about how we think about the world today. The early 20th century is steeped in stuff like this. Love your writing and you too man <3
I come from a family of lawyers, they are trained sophists. If you have an understanding of logical fallacies you can run circles around them, they proceed to get angry and attempt to tone police you. They almost always have no sound arguments for what they say.
Really well done. Thanks for sharing this apparently buried information. I had never heard of any of the events you covered, which could just mean I personally have been living under a rock but I suspect these world-shaping historical cases and their details aren't widely known, for a reason.
If I can make a request, I'm sure i’m not the only one who’s impressed by your skill in finding and explicating history, if you could share tips at some point about how you’ve been able to develop your ability and talent in researching and understanding the past, I’m sure (sentient) people (paid subscribers) would love to hear whatever advice you have.
You mentioned “slowing down” in I think your recent big write-up about problems the right faces today. If you could even devote just a couple minutes in a podcast episode expanding your thoughts on that and how you mean, that would be really cool. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Quick side note, the average person’s education at every grade and level is so impoverished that it seems like self-educating and re-building the infrastructure to provide basic important grounding knowledge, as opposed to factoid trivia “islands” as you’ve called them, is needed more than ever
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea that had every happened but its not a shock. Its like the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. I'm sure similar events have played out many times over in the past few decades but we will probably never hear most of those stories.
I reenrolled at a large UC recently. My (very progressive) history of california teacher did briefly touch on the LA times bombing, but this info on clarence darrow was not shared.
Love bits of history like this that are completely brushed away that in retrospect do a lot to reshape about how we think about the world today. The early 20th century is steeped in stuff like this. Love your writing and you too man <3
I hated it that time a socially was almost electiws mayor of LA