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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:
- Robert Putnam: The Man Who Counted What America Lost
- W. Bradford Wilcox: The Sociologist Who Tells America to Get Married
- Peter Moskos: The Cop Who Talks to People
- Julius Krein
- Ryan Burge: The Numbers Man in the Empty Church
- Emily Oster: The Economist in the Delivery Room
- The Most Ridiculous Story Ever Told
- Tanner Greer
- Economist Tyler Cowen
- Richard Reeves: A Life in Institutions
- Jake Adelstein: The Reporter Who Became His Story
- Jim Goad (1961-2026)
- Moira Greyland
- 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
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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)
* Social Cliques in New York, 2026 (5-25-26)
* Social Cliques in San Francisco, 2026 (5-25-26)
* The Rival Courts of Washington (5-25-26)
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Category Archives: Adventist
My Dad’s Shabbos Lecture Is On YouTube
Saturday night, my 79-year old dad told people to check him out on YouTube. His Shabbos afternoon sermon is already up: "Dr. Desmond Ford speaks in the Campus Hill 7th Day Adventist Church on September 6, 2008. His topic is … Continue reading
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La Sierra University Tour IV
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La Sierra University Tour III
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I Tour La Sierra University Friday Afternoon
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Growing Up Adventist: A Dialogue Between Luke Ford and Gary Chartier XIII
Why don’t Christians feel obliged to abide by the Torah? There are two commandments in the Torah against shaving and cutting the corners of your beard. In the 19th Century, lots of Adventists, such as James White, had beards.
Growing Up Adventist: A Dialogue Between Luke Ford and Gary Chartier XII
Robust Australian bluntness vs. the American sense of courtesy. Aussies play hardball while Yanks play softball. Theological wrestling. The Doctrine of the Heavenly Sanctuary. Robert Brinsmead. Australian evangelist John Carter.
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Patty Cabrera – Adventism’s Rock Star
At La Sierra College Friday afternoon, I asked Professor Gary Chartier who were the rock stars in Adventism today. When I was growing up in the church, my dad was a rock star. Whenever he’d walk into a room, people … Continue reading
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Growing Up Adventist: A Dialogue Between Luke Ford and Gary Chartier XI
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Getting Laid Vs Getting Saved
As a teenager, I thought 1000 times more about getting laid than getting saved. I only came back to religion when I got Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1988. Complete video series here.
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