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Category Archives: Abuse
Journalist Amy Wallace Consistently Chooses Sides
Read Amy Wallace the usual way and she has a value. Truth over comfort, sympathy for the one the world has flattened, the witness who cannot be bought. David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory says there is no such value, in her … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘Why Virginia Roberts Giuffre Would Not Stop Talking About Jeffrey Epstein’
Amy Wallace writes for The New York Times Oct. 19, 2025: Since 2011, when Ms. Giuffre publicly accused Mr. Epstein (she was the first of his victims to forgo anonymity), she repeatedly revealed — in depositions, lawsuits and interviews — … Continue reading
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The Settlement Is Also an Institution: Rebecca Ellis Covers Los Angeles County
Rebecca Ellis is an American investigative journalist whose career traces a path through public media into metropolitan accountability reporting. She covers Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Times, where her work on child welfare, juvenile justice, and the … Continue reading
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Amy Wallace and the Migration of Elite Journalists
Amy Wallace (b. 1962) belongs to the generation of American long-form journalists who came up through the metropolitan newspaper system, moved into the prestige magazine world, and later turned to collaborative nonfiction. Her career traces a larger shift in American … Continue reading
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The Definitive Book on the Institutional Cover-up of Rabbinic Sex Abuse in America
The existing literature gives you fragments. Michael Lesher’s Sexual Abuse, Shonda, and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities (2014) covers the halakhic apparatus of silence from a lawyer-insider angle. Amy Neustein’s edited collection Tempest in the Temple (2009) gathers case studies … Continue reading
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The Caring Professor
The more caring the professor, in my experience, the more likely it is that he will try to fuck you. Those who mentor the under-privileged and disadvantaged, like Jerry Sandusky, are the most likely to try to take advantage of … Continue reading
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The Selective Machinery of Jewish Suffering: Holocaust Memory and the Suppression of Internal Abuse
Jeffrey Alexander argues in “Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma” that suffering does not automatically become collective trauma. It becomes trauma only when carrier groups successfully construct a narrative that answers four questions: what happened, who the victims are, how … Continue reading
Tell Me Where It Hurts
Around 2009, I heard UCLA psychiatrist Stephen Marmer on the Dennis Prager Show recommend the book The Body Keeps The Score. I bought it, I read it, and then it vanished in my thinking. I don’t think there was enough … Continue reading
The Performance of Suffering: Wiesel, Levi, and the Market for Holocaust Testimony
Sociologist Jeffrey Alexander argues in “Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma” that trauma is not the automatic social consequence of terrible events. It is a cultural achievement. Events become collective traumas when carrier groups successfully construct a narrative that defines … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Melbourne Orthodox Jewish Authority
Orthodox Jews in Caulfield and St Kilda do not compete for authority by declaring a desire for power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their claims as fidelity to halacha, loyalty to Torah life, and responsibility for sustaining … Continue reading
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