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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:
- Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
- Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
- What is a ‘Received Idea’?
- Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
- Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
- Marine Le Pen
- The Coalition-Proximity Rule
- Nigel Farage
- Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
- Walker Connor (1926-2017)
- Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
- Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
- Ernest Gellner
- Eric Kaufmann: The Man Who Made the Majority Visible
- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
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- Stephen Kotkin: A Life in Power
- William T. Vollmann: An American Life in Excess
- Rod Dreher: A Life in Exile
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- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
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* 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)
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* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
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* 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)
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* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
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* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
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Category Archives: Attachment
Decoding My Life
I want to say something dramatic to grab your attention. How about this? You should only believe what people say about themselves when it is shaming. That observation is not 100% true, but it’s useful. It is not original to … Continue reading →
Don’t like and subscribe (9-19-24)
The above video was inspired by my disgust with the below video:
When you feel ignored…
I hate feeling ignored. It hurts. But it rarely drives me crazy. I interpret being ignored, usually, as a loud answer to the bid I was making for someone’s attention. I don’t tend to stew over it. Instead, I think … Continue reading →
Time: I Tried to Cure My Burnout. Here’s What Happened
Jamie Ducharme writes: Their burnout symptoms improved, but it wasn’t necessarily the food that made the difference—it was support. “We have so many shared experiences and so many stressors that are in common, and yet physicians will often feel like, … Continue reading →
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The Brain has a Mind of its Own: Attachment, Neurobiology and the New Science of Psychotherapy
Jeremy Holmes writes in this 2020 book: * Energy in FEP [Free Energy Principle] is not a physical phenomenon like heat, or electromagnetic radiation, but a superordinate explanatory category, akin to gravity (cf. Connolly & van Deventer, 2017), with both … Continue reading →
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Why Do People Watch Livestreams?
I suspect the number one reason people watch is to connect. People don’t watch me because they care about me, they watch because they care about themselves and my livestream helps them better enjoy and understand their own lives. When … Continue reading →
How I Conquered My Relationship Insecurity
Tracy Chabala writes for The Fix: The pain prompted me to do some research on relationship insecurity—I had to know what the hell was wrong with me. That’s when I learned about attachment styles and the important role they play … Continue reading →
Falling In Love
I fall in love way too easily, way too quickly, and way too intensely. I’m an easy target for mockery because I can’t help wearing my feelings on my sleeve. I’ve had long stretches of my life feeling helpless, feeling … Continue reading →
If You Can’t Connect With People, You’ll Have To Connect To Something Else Such As A Process Or Substance
I tweeted yesterday: “The higher my quality of life, the more secure my attachment, the less hold my addictions have on me.” Harel responded: “Luke, this really hit home with me. Can you expand on this?” We are wired to … Continue reading →
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Another Sleepless Night
When my alarm went off at 5:35 am, I was in a dream where these dusky guys were making fun of me online and I ran into them in person and I tried desperately to connect with them and to … Continue reading →