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- Paul Craig Roberts: From the Treasury to the Margins
- The Gallery Method: Jonathan Swan and the Craft of Insider Reporting
- Maggie Haberman – Taking the Call
- Kyle Sandilands and the Economics of Offense
- After the Kings: Ben Fordham and the Remaking of 2GB Breakfast
- The Entertainer’s Exemption: John Laws and the Price of Trust
- What the Record Shows: David Marr and the Uses of Evidence
- Peopling the Emptiness: The Life of Patrick White
- Crossing Lines: Nick McKenzie and the Limits of Method
- Australian Investigative Journalist Chris Masters: The Man Who Saw In
- The Unwinder: George Packer and the Study of American Decline
- Thomas Edsall: The Reporter Who Treated Politics as a System
- Ross Douthat and the Persistence of Belief
- Joseph Kahn and the Stewardship of The New York Times
- The Institutionalist: Dean Baquet and the Remaking of American Journalism
- The Publisher Always Wins – A Jill Abramson Biography
- Howard Zinn – The Historian Who Took Sides
- Linton Besser: A Reporter and the Paper Trail
- Gerald Stone and the Making of Australian Current Affairs
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
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* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
* Sydney Jews Learn That Their Aussie Social Contract Has Become A Suicide Pact (12-15-25)
* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
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* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
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* The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
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Monthly Archives: September 2016
From A Time When Women Knew The Score (Or Men Were Less Beta)
From the Chateau: Reader Mister Bicks digs up a very old tune (originally written in 1917!) with a message that’s more honest than you’ll hear from any singer today. Thinking about your assertion that looks aren’t as important as charisma … Continue reading
In Israel, racial profiling doesn’t warrant debate or apologies
I wish more First World countries were like this. Haaretz January 8, 2010: While other democracies hesitate to resort to racial profiling, Israel takes the practice for granted. A couple of months ago, I toured the IDF Ground Forces Command’s … Continue reading
NYT: Donald Trump Jr. Faces Backlash After Comparing Syrian Refugees to Skittles That ‘Would Kill You’
All the comments in my Twitter feed praised him. I guess it all comes down to the question of whose side are you on. Donald Trump Jr and Sr are on the side of non-Muslims. The MSM are on the … Continue reading
What was wrong with Hillary Clinton’s eyes during Philly speech?
REPORT: During a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton appeared to have something quite off about her appearance. Hillary’s eyes appeared not in-sync with one another, as the left eye looked to be cock-eyed and … Continue reading
‘70% of European Jews won’t go to shul on High Holy Days despite heightened security’
Perhaps Jews should rethink their support for Muslim immigration into the First World? Muslims tend to hate Jews more intensely than goyim do. Jerusalem Post: “The challenge for most of the Jewish communities has doubled in recent months,” stated Rabbi … Continue reading
Do You Have A Chest Flu?
People all around me are coming down with pneumonia. They often get a chest x-ray and a prescript for Levaquin, which often makes them feel worse. Here are some sample reviews on this drug: * I started having trouble about … Continue reading
Are Young Professionals Minyanim a way for Ashkenazim to separate from Sephardim?
Will the Young Professionals Minyan be the last stand for implicit white identity? Chaim Amalek writes: “I think it is more a way for young (20-34), professionally employed people (doctors, etc.) to separate themselves from everyone else. Not a scene … Continue reading
Did the Famous Sailor Sexually Assault the Famous Nurse?
Dennis Prager writes: The most famous American photo of World War II is undoubtedly that of the four Marines planting the American flag on Iwo Jima. The second most famous is probably the legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt’s picture of an … Continue reading
The Mainstream Media Bet the Farm on Hillary–and Lost
Charles Hugh Smith writes: The MSM has forsaken its duty in a democracy and is a disgrace to investigative, unbiased journalism. The mainstream media bet the farm on Hillary Clinton, confident that their dismissal of every skeptical inquiry as a … Continue reading
Last Blogger Standing
I began blogging July 3, 1997, the day I bought my first PC. One of the rewards of blogging is the people you meet (online and in person). Since I stopped doing it for a living in 2007 (I made … Continue reading