Monthly Archives: August 2023

Decoding Liberalism and the Riverfront Brawl (8-13-23)

01:00 Dooovid joins03:00 Dooovid’s Jewish journey06:00 People go west to form new identities free from traditional fetters 20:00 Haredi Jews have given up autonomy25:00 The varieties of the conversion to Orthodox Judaism experience35:00 Beggars, security, haredi vs modern orthodox shuls52:00 … Continue reading

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Why Do Some People End Their Sentences In ‘Yeah’?

From Quora: “Most British people don’t say Yeah at the end of a sentence. It would be most prevalent in certain dialects in South Eastern England. It is used as a affirmation of the sentence it ends, or the series … Continue reading

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I’ve Started Following The Women’s World Cup

Normally, I pay minimal attention to women’s sports because the product is so inferior to what 14 year old boys can produce, let alone men. This is true for soccer. A high school boys team can and has thrashed the … Continue reading

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Cruel Optimism

Gabriel Winant writes for N+1 in 2015: Affect theory’s center of gravity is found near this question of happiness. If there is one contemporary scholar who looms over the field, it is Lauren Berlant, an English professor at the University … Continue reading

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How Livestreaming Made Me A Better Man

Dispensing your opinions online tends to degenerate most people as they develop an e-personality that corrodes their real life. I started blogging in 1997 and I’ve experienced my share of the perils of the e-personality (carelessness, impulsiveness, thoughtlessness, self-aggrandizement, audience … Continue reading

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