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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:
- Jim Goad (1961-2026)
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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
- Mark Brandt: The Man Who Asked Who Else Is Prejudiced
- John T. Jost: The Psychologist of Acquiescence
- Strange Bedfellows in the Academy: Alliance Theory and the Straussian Schism
- Tournier on Desmond Ford
- The Fence and the Blessing: How Jews Have Thought About Gentiles
- Tournier on Luke Ford
- Tournier on The Nostradamus Kid
- An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
- Tournier on Cinema Paradiso and Desmond Ford
- The Self-Hating Jew
- The Alliance Theory in the Academy
- The Borrowed Robe: How Antisemitism Dresses in Each Age’s Virtue
- A Place For You
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* 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)
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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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* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
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* 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)
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* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
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Category Archives: Adventist
Tournier on Luke Ford
Paul Tournier wrote A Place for You from inside its subject. His father died when he was two months old, his mother when he was six, and the Swiss physician spent fifty years building a psychology whose first axiom is … Continue reading
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Tournier on The Nostradamus Kid
Paul Tournier (1898-1986) took the title of A Place for You from the promise in John 14: I go to prepare a place for you. His argument runs that a person needs a place before he can become a person, … Continue reading
Wayne Judd – Energy Star
I never met a cooler man at Pacific Union College (PUC) than religion teacher Wayne Judd (b. 1942). He was high-energy, hilarious and his family hosted my family many times in the late 70s to watch wholesome things on TV. … Continue reading
The Answered Letter: A Hero-System Essay on Philosopher Gary Chartier
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) says a man carries two terrors he cannot face at the same time. The first: he will die. The second runs deeper. His death will leave the world unchanged, the water closing over the spot where he … Continue reading
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The Good Report
A boy of eight sits at a low table in a room on a high floor of a hospital in Los Angeles. Wooden blocks stand in front of him. A man sits across the table with a stopwatch and a … Continue reading
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I Watched Craig Van Rooyen Soar
The ball goes up and Craig goes after it. No matter how fast I run nor how high I jump, Craig always floated above me that day and he always caught the ball. And he always scored. Forty two years … Continue reading
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The Boy Who Did the Right Things
The door of the Badzik home stays open to Luke Ford on the weekends from 1980-1984. He comes for a Friday and stays through Sunday, fed and housed and tolerated, a guest the family takes in without ceremony. Luke never … Continue reading
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Neal C. Wilson and the Global Turn in Seventh-day Adventism
Neal C. Wilson (July 5, 1920-December 14, 2010) led the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 1979 to 1990 and was the most important administrator of modern Adventism. He presided over a decade of rapid global growth, large institutional reorganization, … Continue reading
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The Last Generalist: Bob Ellis and Australian Public Life
Bob Ellis (1942-2016) worked across more fields of Australian public life than any writer of his generation. He wrote novels, plays, screenplays, memoirs, political histories, essays, poetry, songs, and journalism. He directed films. He drafted speeches for premiers and federal … Continue reading
The Excluded Standpoint: The Work of Malcolm Bull
Malcolm Bull (b. 1960) holds the post of Professor of Art and the History of Ideas at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, where he teaches the history and theory of visual culture since 1900. He is a … Continue reading