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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:
- What the Clinician Knows: The Career of Amy Bloom
- Steven Pinker: Language, Human Nature, and Progress
- No Lessons: The Fiction of Melvin Jules Bukiet
- The Double Life: Jonathan Ames Between Memoir and Invention
- World-Class Haters: Terry Moran and the End of the Neutral Correspondent
- The Price of Politics: Ian Bremmer and the Making of Political Risk
- The Duck and the Rabbit: Danielle Blau and the Marriage of Philosophy and Poetry
- The Stage He Could Not Find: Lawrence Kohlberg and the Limits of Moral Development
- Steve Almond: Affection Without Exemption
- Karen Bender: Small Decisions, Remade Lives
- John J. Mearsheimer and the Hero System of the Cold Look
- Arne Naess: The Hero System of the Wide Self
- Yael Goldstein Love
- Aimee Bender and the Uses of the Impossible
- Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein
- Karl Stefanovic aka Joe Bogan
- Sociologist John W. Meyer
- Shalom Auslander and the God He Cannot Leave
- The Mattering Map
- Regime Change and the Misunderstanding Myth
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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)
* Nobody Is Coming (8-10-25)
* When Elites Restrict Our Speech, It’s Because They Love Truth, Freedom & Democracy (8-3-25)
Category Archives: Personal
An Ode To Moral Leadership
guest41: hi old oversexed pirate guest41: you’re in meditation ? YourMoralLeader: yo dude YourMoralLeader: just blogging guest41: am working for you right now YourMoralLeader: getting me a hot chick? guest41: nope an ode YourMoralLeader: next best thing YourMoralLeader: love me … Continue reading
I’ll Never Make It As A Publicist
I’ve been helping a friend publicize some of his clients. I’ve even pitched in with a few interviews. They’ve not always gone over so well. Boss: but they claim you asked some weird questions, i.e., do you ever fight with … Continue reading
A Bad Smell
Disconsolate, listless, pathetic davening. For this I converted? I feel like we’re all davening under water. My lips and throat and arms feel heavy. I can barely move. I can’t be bothered to greet anybody and nobody can be bothered … Continue reading
Turning My Grey Hair Brown
In February, I quit using Grecian Formula. In the succeeding weeks, my hair turned grey. Then I started going to acupuncture twice a week in April and now my hair has returned to the brown luster of my youth.
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My Dad Is Lecturing At Loma Linda University Sept 6
From the Facebook announcement: The Adventist Today Foundation will host the 2008 Richard Hammill Memorial Lecture by Dr. Desmond Ford on Sabbath, September 6, 2008 beginning at 3 pm in the Campus Hill Church on the campus of Loma Linda … Continue reading
I Have A Nightmare That I’ve Become A Pack Rat
I’m not falling asleep until around 5 am these days. Then I have these vivid nightmares around 7 am. Today I dream that I’ve invited Rob Spallone over. He drops by and then goes to see a friend in the … Continue reading
If You Don’t Like Your Google Rankings, Then Do Something About It
I get a lot of people asking me to unpost things they’ve previously consented to because my work is the first result for their name in Google. No, I am not in the unposting business. Why would you even ask … Continue reading
‘The Spirit Of The Marathon’
I haven’t read any books or watched any movies about the marathon in the 29 years since Osgood Schlatters disease forced me to stop running them in eighth grade. In the year previous, I finished five. This new documentary directed by … Continue reading
I Bought A Blackberry Curve Yesterday
After the rebate and including taxes, it’ll cost me close to $200 and an extra $20 a month. In exchange, I can check my email anytime anywhere and go online if I need to (I’m not thrilled about reading websites … Continue reading