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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:
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- 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
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- An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
- Tournier on Cinema Paradiso and Desmond Ford
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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: Addiction
Democracy & Oligarchy
When addicts become adults, they usually gain the freedom to pursue their desires to their ultimate conclusions. This often does not work out for them, so sometimes they seek help in a 12-step program. As soon as they start turning … Continue reading
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Tiger Woods Car Crash (2-24-21)
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/fans-say-tiger-woods-looked-zoned-out-on-tv-before-crash/ https://www.the-sun.com/news/2395280/tiger-woods-smashed-director-car-crash/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleabag https://www.jaywalkerlodge.com/tag/the-jaywalker-parable/ https://history.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/muller-jerry/index.html https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691008233/the-other-god-that-failed
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Our Problems Are Not Our Problems, They’re Just Symptoms Of Deeper Problems (2-5-21)
Richard Spencer tweets Friday: “I’m taking a substantial break from posting on Twitter, though I might check back in occasionally to see news and such. This site has taken too much of my energy for years now, and it’s time … Continue reading
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I Want My Streaming To Complement My Life
Luke talks to Babylonian Hebrew about creating live streams that work with your life rather than against it. Luke discusses this Four Corners documentary: Why professional athletes and Olympians struggle with life after sport: My Age of Treason debate, https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593/jq-debate-with-age-of-treason … Continue reading
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With Or Without You
External validation was my favorite drug. Until my 50s, I often put more value on what other people thought of me than on what I thought of me. As a child, I think I got most of my strokes for … Continue reading
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Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope (12-27-20)
00:00 Overall reaction to book 02:00 Loneliness 1:24:00 Traffic 1:29:00 Nature 1:39:00 Driving for Uber 1:44:00 How do you interact with the abominables? 1:46:00 When people scorn us for our politics My guest is Richard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE0dJw8SfA_PUNmyu_1ywdA
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The Power Of State
Mary McNamara writes for the Los Angeles Times: I was a junior in college, my brother a freshman, and we were home for the annual roller-coaster ride of the holidays. On this particular Christmas Day, events had unfolded as they … Continue reading
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Purchased: Leaving the Sex Trade By Deanna Lynn (9-2-20)
Deanna Lynn writes in her new book: We live in a culture increasingly influenced by porn. Sex is used to sell everything, from household products to cars to electronics. Provocative and popular fiction like 50 Shades of Gray is encouraging … Continue reading
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I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help
From the New York Times review: Ms. Kaminer’s antipathy has little to do with whether these techniques work or not. She avoids questioning the experience of people who say they have been helped, cured or even had their lives saved … Continue reading