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- Marine Le Pen
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- Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
- Walker Connor (1926-2017)
- Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
- Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
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- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
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- Stephen Kotkin: A Life in Power
- William T. Vollmann: An American Life in Excess
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- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
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* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
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* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
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* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
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Category Archives: FailedMessiah
JTA & Duplicate Content
I got this email today from JTA.org: Hey Luke, I’m sure you remember me from my Jewschool days. Just a heads up: JTA’s pretty adamant about making sure that people don’t reprint our content in full if they’re not paying … Continue reading
Posted in FailedMessiah, Journalism, JTA
Tagged death bed, exclusivity, investment pool, jewish community foundation, Los Angeles Times, mainstream media, profit news, takedown notice
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Disappointing Shmarya Rosenberg Profile In The Forward
Anthony Weiss accepts Rosenberg’s self-presentation at face value. He doesn’t probe. He doesn’t use other sources on Rosenberg other than Rosenberg. I’ve been friendly with Shmarya since 2004 and am a regular reader of his blog. Very little in this … Continue reading
Posted in FailedMessiah
Tagged anthony weiss, frequent postings, jewish terrorism, misuse of power, orthodox judaism, self presentation
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Do Gentiles Possess Holiness?
The more religious you go in Jewish life, the more likely you are to encounter beliefs that Gentiles have little value. There’s a good discussion on Failed Messiah: RabbidW posts: "Jews do not plan on killing nonJews. Jews speak of … Continue reading
Posted in FailedMessiah
Tagged altruism, divine soul, downfall, enigmatic smile, faithful god, gentiles, heaven, holiness, interrogation, jew, jewish life, Jews, kuzari, leibowitz, messiah, orthodox communities, outreach worker, prayers, principle, rebbe, religions, sacri, Yeshiva, yeshivas
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Failed Messiah Banned By Google Adsense
Shmarya Rosenberg got this email from Adsense: While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisers, anything wrong with that, email, Google, google adsense, messiah, orthodox judaism, publishers, regard, rosenberg
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Failed Messiah: ‘If At First You Don’t Succeed, Sue the Victim’
Shmarya Rosenberg writes on FailedMessiah.com: A Chabad man serves as the hazzan of a Chabad synagogue. Several years ago, outside another synagogue after a community event, the Chabad hazzan sexually assaults a woman who is a member of the Chabad … Continue reading
Posted in Chabad, FailedMessiah, Orthodoxy
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