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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:
- Nikki Finke: A Life in Deadline Hollywood
- Joan Wallach Scott and the Politics of the Category
- Lynn Hunt and the Cultural Turn
- The Jewish Jesus and His Interpreters: Amy-Jill Levine and the Return of the New Testament to Second Temple Judaism
- The Keeper of the Dead: Timothy Snyder’s Hero System
- How Wide the We: David Hollinger and the Quarrel Over Solidarity
- The Anarchists’ Son in Perry Miller’s Chair
- Ruth Wisse Against the Schlemiel
- The Man Who Lived in the Conjunction: A Hero System Reading of Stephen J. Whitfield
- The Hero System of Literary Critic Robert Alter
- ‘The journey is over. Love to all.’
- The Private Case
- Eager to Fight: The Hero System of John Podhoretz
- The Hero System of Norman Podhoretz
- Cynthia Ozick’s Hero System: The Idol and the Word
- The Editor Who Decided What Survives: Jules Chametzky and the Hero System of the Canon
- Good Faith and Its Strangers: The Hero System of William Shernoff
- The Whistle in the Garden: Leo Marx’s Hero System
- The Self-Fathered Man: Daniel Aaron’s America
- I Can’t Remember A Leader As Unpredictable As Trump
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* 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)
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* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
* Decoding Nick Fuentes (11-2-25)
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* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
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* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
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Category Archives: Personal
I’m Starting To Find People Abrasive
Yes, even a rude crude bloke like me can find other people abrasive. I must’ve changed. It must be all the Alexander Technique and yoga I’m doing. I feel different. I’m not as flip and as cynical. I no longer … Continue reading
Align The Heavenly Forces In Your Life
I don’t believe in astrology but I don’t deny its relevance either. I’m agnostic. But one can’t be agnostic in the way one lives. You either live as God matters or you live as if God does not matter. You … Continue reading
Once This Was A Place Of Truth
From my live cam chat: RabbiGadol: NPR has a report on some of the Pervert Rabbis of Brooklyn RabbiGadol: Christ, there is nothing Jewish about this music. RabbiGadol: Once, this was a place of torah RabbiGadol: Now, it is the … Continue reading
My Dad Turned 80 Today
He’s had a good innings. Three kids, two grandkids, thousands of people who adore him. He’s the subject of a flattering new biography. I saw him a couple of months ago at Loma Linda University. I haven’t been back to … Continue reading
Is It Abuse When There’s Consent?
David Deutsch emails: Luke, I’m flattered by what you said about preferring to be abused by me than praised by a milquetoast, but really, I love you as much as ever. The only truly objectionable passage was your reference to … Continue reading
‘Do You Hate Me?’
"Do you hate me?" she emailed me afterward. "I will if you never connect me with your father," I replied. "Is he on Facebook?"
Not Realistic?
A friend told me that my plans were not realistic. Huh? That’s probably what Jesus’s friends told him when dad said he had to go down to earth to save the world by dying on a cross. I bet even … Continue reading
Love & Money
It doesn’t bother me that many women in their twenties make no serious plans to earn a living and simply seek instead for a man to support them. What bothers me is that they rarely admit it. I’ve earned enough … Continue reading
My Enemies List
As I walk around on Shabbat, I make a point of greeting every male Jew. I’m too modest to talk to female strangers (unless they are young and hot and seemingly eager to talk to me). When certain people refuse … Continue reading