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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:
- Robert Putnam: The Man Who Counted What America Lost
- W. Bradford Wilcox: The Sociologist Who Tells America to Get Married
- Peter Moskos: The Cop Who Talks to People
- Julius Krein
- Ryan Burge: The Numbers Man in the Empty Church
- Emily Oster: The Economist in the Delivery Room
- The Most Ridiculous Story Ever Told
- Tanner Greer
- Economist Tyler Cowen
- Richard Reeves: A Life in Institutions
- Jake Adelstein: The Reporter Who Became His Story
- Jim Goad (1961-2026)
- Moira Greyland
- Robert Oscar Lopez: The Inconvenient Witness
- Two Ledgers: Decoding the Gurus and the Price of Talk
- The Pervert’s Progress: Costin Vlad Alamariu and the Making of Bronze Age Pervert
- Curtis Yarvin: A Life Against Democracy
- Mark Helprin: Against the Current
- Mark Brandt: The Man Who Asked Who Else Is Prejudiced
- John T. Jost: The Psychologist of Acquiescence
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- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* '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)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* 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)
* Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter (5-31-26)
* The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento (5-27-26)
* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
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Category Archives: Personal
Underearning Thinking – Hoping Others Will Take Care Of You
It is good to read the 12 Symptoms of Underearning, not so much to understand the disease, but to learn to spot it in your own life. 1. Time Indifference – We put off what must be done and do … Continue reading
My Back Went Out Yesterday
So my back got all twisted in knots over Tuesday night, it got worse Wednesday, around 8 am I collapsed to the floor, had to be helped to my car. I’ve always relied upon the kindness of strangers. So the … Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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