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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- Scott Pelley and the End of the Network-News Tradition
- Eric Schulzke: A Life Across the Academy, the Newsroom, and the Prison Gate
- Rob Stutzman: A Life in the California Political Trade
- Catherine Seipp and the Network That Replaced the Newsroom
- NYT: ‘Why Does No One Care About the World Cup This Year?’
- Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists
- Autumn Gold: Secrecy, Time, and the Recovery of Truth
- Eric Longabardi: An Investigative Journalist Between Two Media Orders
- Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas
- The Workplace City: John L. Smith and the Lives Behind Las Vegas
- The Man on the Floor: Peter Berg and the Cinema of Competence
- Who Governs: The Work of Taylor Sheridan
- Ben Mezrich: Mythographer of Disruption
- The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility
- Carl von Clausewitz: An Intellectual Biography
- The Translator: David Klinghoffer and the Argument Against Materialism
- The Norm Explainers
- Show Me How It Travels
- The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth
- Richard B. Spencer: The Man Who Branded the Alt-Right
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
* The Most Socially Toxic Inconvenient Truths (1-18-26)
* The Luke Ford Genre (1-18-26)
* The Filkins Pivot: Legacy Prestige and the Fracturing of the Chattering Class (1-16-26)
* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
* Sydney Jews Learn That Their Aussie Social Contract Has Become A Suicide Pact (12-15-25)
* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
* Decoding Nick Fuentes (11-2-25)
* The Landscape of Emotional Sobriety (10-29-30)
* The Rise & Fall Of Air Supply (10-19-25)
* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
* You Are An Important Soldier In A Great War (9-7-25)
* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
* The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
* If you can’t trust central bankers, then who can you trust? (8-23-25)
* Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
* Why Do Smart News Operations Sound So Uniformly Dumb So Often? (8-16-25)
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Category Archives: Personal
Goyim & Jews
A mate writes to a mate: Steve Sailer was born in Southern California as a Catholic, to probably not-very observant parents (his father was an aeronautical engineer at the apogee of that profession down there). I doubt whether religion figures … Continue reading
Life In 90035!
* I love it when you walk past candles on Shenandoah commemorating a banger who died trying to rob the liquor store. * I love it when you walk to shul and see a ho and her pimp snag a … Continue reading
Who’s Luke Ford?
Luke tweets: How could the Nazis take down Weimer without being so nazi-like? Perhaps mutual dialogue w sharing of feelings facilitated by therapist? Thesokorus shares and tweets: are you familiar with the great Luke Ford? >no whoz he Thesokorus: I … Continue reading
The Nice Girl
It was the fall of 1987. I was taking my second Political Science class at Sierra Community College with my favorite teacher — Larry Wight. There was a good girl in the class who liked me. She was blonde. She … Continue reading
My Journey On The Trump Express
On June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump announced he was running for president, a friend of mine listened to his speech on the radio. When we met up that morning, he told that I would love Donald Trump. He was … Continue reading
Wanting To Act Out
I spent Rosh Hashanah wanting to say inappropriate things. I wanted to be cutting and cruel and sarcastic. I kept it all up bottled up inside except for once when I speculated that a bloke’s wedding might be a same-sex … Continue reading
Playing By The Rules
A friend says: Guys like us would have done better by smoking a bit of weed and drinking more alcohol (or in my case, any). There comes a time when a man must own up to what has not worked … Continue reading
Would I Stay Quiet For $100?
Friend: If I paid you $100, do you think you could manage not to watch, read or comment on the upcoming debate? Luke: No Friend: $1,000? Luke: No Friend: Lol, I figured. Enjoy your “sex.”
Are Young Professionals Minyanim a way for Ashkenazim to separate from Sephardim?
Will the Young Professionals Minyan be the last stand for implicit white identity? Chaim Amalek writes: “I think it is more a way for young (20-34), professionally employed people (doctors, etc.) to separate themselves from everyone else. Not a scene … Continue reading
Last Blogger Standing
I began blogging July 3, 1997, the day I bought my first PC. One of the rewards of blogging is the people you meet (online and in person). Since I stopped doing it for a living in 2007 (I made … Continue reading