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Category Archives: Articles
Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History (2015)
Marc Shapiro’s book documents the pattern: rabbinic authorities censoring, altering, or rewriting earlier sources to bring them into line with current Orthodox norms. Maimonides loses his Aristotle. The Hatam Sofer loses his contact with maskilim. Photos lose their women. Biographies … Continue reading
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power at the Gates Foundation
Program officers, strategy leads, and senior executives at the Gates Foundation do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Data-Driven Impact, Evidence-Based Philanthropy, Every Life Has Equal Value, Measurable Lives Saved, and … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Houthis Leaders Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are keeping the mountain redoubts in Saada, the Red Sea missile batteries, and the Sana’a political council humming right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign pounding Iran for a second month, Khamenei martyred, IRGC supply ships sunk … Continue reading
From The Perspective Of The Buffered Identity, There’s Nothing Funny About A Gay Ayatollah
Charles Taylor’s concept of the buffered self describes the modern individual as someone who experiences a strong boundary between inner life and the external world. The self is autonomous and insulated. Meanings come from inside rather than from outside forces … Continue reading
Decoding CalTech
Applied to the California Institute of Technology, David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory reframes scientific rigor as an unusually effective anti-bullshit alliance technology. Caltech does not eliminate tribal cognition. It harnesses it by forcing status competition to run through narrow, costly, and … Continue reading
The Lives of Others II: American Freedom
The setting is Los Angeles, January 2026. The smog is thick, and the city feels heavy with the weight of unstated rules. In this sequel to the spirit of the 2006 film, the surveillance is not conducted by men in … Continue reading
The Lost Generation In An Age Of Experts
I want to map Stephen Turner’s 2013 book, The Politics of Expertise on to the topics discussed in Jacob Savage’s new essay, The Lost Generation. Turner argues that expertise is not just “truth” but a political authorized currency. The “Lost … Continue reading
Understanding The Russell Brand Allegations (9-26-23)
When you become a guru… (1-12-22)
* How do you keep offering insights? You’ll feel tempted to get out of your lane and to leave the areas where you have genuine expertise. You’ll feel compelled to relay conspiracy theories. How else do you maintain your conviction … Continue reading
Stalingrad
From the Vassily Grossman novel: * When he spoke about the predicament of science in Czechoslovakia, his voice began to quaver. Then he shouted, “It’s impossible to describe, you have to see it with your own eyes! Scientific thought is … Continue reading