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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- Two Defensible Denominators: What a Standard Accusation Dictionary Says About Luke Ford’s Archive, and Why It Says the Opposite Thing Twice
- The Second Collapse: Twenty Years of Luke Ford’s Publication Threshold, Measured
- Luke Ford and the E-Personality: Twenty-Nine Years of Disinhibition, Self-Regulation, and the Price of Friction
- The Room Around the Argument: Audience Sorting at Outside the Beltway, 2003-2026
- Steven Taylor, James Joyner and the E-Personality: Aboujaoude’s Virtually You Tested on Twenty Years of Outside the Beltway
- Amy Wax and the E-Personality: A Claim-Level Analysis, 1996-2026
- After Cathy’s Table: How Digital Platforms Reshaped a Generation of Professional Writers
- Nathan Cofnas and the E-Personality: The Auditor, the Performer, and the Cambridge Investigation
- The E-Personality of the Public Intellectual
- NYT: ‘What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?’
- Another National Treasure is Falling to AI (Fiction)
- What Percentage of Philip N. Cohen’s Blog Passes the Front Page Test?
- Paul Bloom’s Small Potatoes Archive
- The Two Accusations
- I Believe Everybody, Including Iran, Acts Rationally in Pursuit of their own Interests
- The Set, the Voice & the Anthropology of Philip N. Cohen
- WP: ‘Trump’s Harvard loss conceals a strategic victory’
- WSJ: ‘Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic’
- ‘Is (Human) Writing Doomed? | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom’
- Sarah Knew
BEST POSTS:
- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter (5-31-26)
* The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento (5-27-26)
* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
* Social Cliques in New York, 2026 (5-25-26)
* Social Cliques in San Francisco, 2026 (5-25-26)
* The Rival Courts of Washington (5-25-26)
* The City of Private Rooms (5-25-26)
Monthly Archives: July 2025
‘The Chutzpah of Justice Kennedy Lecturing Us About Democracy on June 26’
Constitutional law professor Josh Blackman blogs: June 26, 2015 fell on a Friday. At the time, it was fairly unusual for the Supreme Court to hand down opinions on a Friday. But wouldn’t you know it, Pride weekend would begin … Continue reading
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Secrets of Talk Radio
From Milwaukee magazine August 24, 2009: To succeed, a talk show host must perpetuate the notion that his or her listeners are victims, and the host is the vehicle by which they can become empowered. The host frames virtually every … Continue reading
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AI Says I’m Clueless
I deep-cleaned my carpet for the first time in five years. The gunk I pulled up was horrifying. Not unlike scrolling through my old posts. I fed the Youtube transcripts of my last 15 plus livestreams into Grok and received … Continue reading
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Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law
Here are some of the most important timestamps from the PBS Frontline documentary “America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump”, each with a quote and a rejoinder drawn from the critiques of Darel E. Paul, Helen Andrews, Ian Fletcher, Stephen … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager Health Update
Grok created this transcript of this chat between PragerU CEO Marissa Streit and Dennis’s son David released July 17: Hi everyone. I am here with David Prager, Dennis’s oldest son. And many of you have been asking for us to … Continue reading
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Jewish Charity Scandals
ChatGPT says: 1. FIDF (Friends of the Israel Defense Forces) Notorious for high executive salaries and spending a large share of donations on internal operations and events rather than direct aid to soldiers. CEO salaries in the past have exceeded … Continue reading
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Morey Levovitz Pushed Out Of FIDF, Steven Weil Pushed Back
How did Steven Weil get his job with FIDF? It helps to have a friend (relative? cousin?) by the name Elazar Stern who is a retired General of the IDF school from the Dati Zionist camp in Israel’s Knesset. Steven … Continue reading
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The Inside Scoop on Jeffrey Epstein
Alan Dershowitz writes: Epstein never created a “client list.” The FBI interviewed alleged victims who named several “clients.” These names have been redacted. They should be disclosed but the courts have ordered them sealed. I know who they are. They … Continue reading
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Opportunity Missed: The Media Continues Failing As “Original Sin” Biden Book Becomes Dominant Topic
Mark Halperin: The reason I spend so much time talking about this is because I care about the media. I want two strong political parties in America. Most people trying to hold the media accountable for what I call the … Continue reading
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Mark Halperin Breaks Down How the Corporate Media is Doubling Down on Double Standards
Mark Halperin: This week, a few things happened that made me angry, annoyed, and frustrated. After 2016, when the press inadvertently helped Donald Trump win by covering him so unfairly, I urged people to think through the mistakes. The same … Continue reading
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