Daily Archives: March 19, 2025

Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies

I ask Grok: “How does Clinton Rossiter’s scholarship, in particular his book Constitutional dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies, help us understand America today?” Grok says: Clinton Rossiter’s Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies offers a framework … Continue reading

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Is Gossip Good?

The New Yorker writes Mar. 17, 2025: Kelsey McKinney, a podcast host and a champion of gossip, is out to change the practice’s bad reputation. “We gossip not only because we can but because we have to,” Kelsey McKinney writes … Continue reading

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The Rabbi & The Wanker

My mate writes to Grok: “write a short story about Luke Ford preparing to masturbate only to have the mental image of his crusty lipped rabbi looking down at him disrupt his plans.” Grok: Luke Ford settled into his worn-out … Continue reading

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How do Orthodox rabbis compete for status?

Grok says: Orthodox rabbis compete for status in a mix of subtle and overt ways, rooted in a world where authority hinges on scholarship, charisma, and community clout—less a free-for-all brawl, more a chess game with unwritten rules. It’s not … Continue reading

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Christopher Caldwell: The Biggest Policy Change of the Century

Caldwell writes Jan. 27, 2025 in the Free Press: So tumultuous was the first week of Donald Trump’s second term that people have barely noticed, a week on, that last Tuesday he repealed affirmative action by executive order. That is … Continue reading

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