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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:
- What the Arday Coverage Established: A First Claim-Level Audit, Including the Results That Cut Against My Own Thesis
- Two Carrier Groups and a Market in Testimony: Cultural Trauma Theory and the Arday Affair
- What the Institutions Were Buying: A Demand-Side Account of the Jason Arday Appointments
- Who Is Cheap to Threaten: Legal Deterrence and the Selection of Publishers
- ‘Jason Arday: The Most Extreme Academic Plagiarism Case in Modern History | Nathan Cofnas’
- The Vanishing Author: First-Person Density in Luke Ford’s Archive, 2007 to 2026
- Four Dates and No Cause: What Changed Luke Ford’s Blogging Between Late 2023 and Late 2025
- 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
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
Should We Aid Ukraine As Much As Israel?
I was listening to The Enforcer bros on Youtube (the best place for breaking war coverage) the other day and they were making a strong case for aiding Ukraine as much as we aid Israel. I am biased here because … Continue reading
I Miss The Times We Had Together
I just got a spam text: “I miss the times we had together. How are you doing? I’m worried.” Me too. I’m verklempt, like Tony Soprano in the final episodes watching TV commercials, but then I remember I’m not needy … Continue reading
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Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries (2024)
Ian Fletcher and Marc Fasteau write: * The US has been losing the international competition for high-value industries and the good jobs, wealth, tax revenues, and national defense capabilities they provide. From 1998 to 2010, 6 million US manufacturing jobs … Continue reading
Jonah Goldberg Yearns For Quality Criticism
I tell Grok: I find Jonah Goldberg hilarious in this interview. The author of Liberal Fascism yearns for high quality criticism and intellectual honesty when his own work is shallow. Grab the tastiest parts and build on my idea. See … Continue reading
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How Australia’s Cronulla Race Riots Helped Stop Muslim Grooming Of Girls
While the British passively accepted Pakistani immigrants raping hundreds of their girls, Australians fought back and stopped the mass rapes. Helen Andrews writes: In the early 2000s, Sydney was rocked by a series of gang rapes. Victims were ordinary Australian … Continue reading
JP: Diaspora generosity is heroic, but too many of the institutions that collect our money have lost the plot, padding paychecks, upgrading seats, and hoarding cash.
Zvika Klein writes in The Jerusalem Post: Four years ago, sitting at my Makor Rishon desk with a stack of Form 990s, I stumbled on a line that made me almost fall off of my chair: The CEO of the … Continue reading
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Victory Over Sin! (7-7-25)
Where does the host lack self-awareness? Grok says: Overdramatizing Personal Slights and Misinterpreting Social Cues: Luke Ford recounts an episode where he felt excluded and tearful for days because he believed he wasn’t invited to a Shabbat dinner, only to … Continue reading
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Will The 12-Day War Precipitate Regime Change In Iran, Russia & China? (7-6-25)
01:00 I’m refining my soul04:00 Do I edit my blogging to make it more acceptable to the standards of Big AI? 07:20 Video: ‘Zhang Youxia’s relentless purge of Xi Jinping’s influence in the military’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5pXPyw-pT814:00 Video: Explaining Xi’s Power Loss, … Continue reading
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What would Matthew McConaughey’s True Detective character think of his self-help venture?
That’s a great question I hear on this edition of Decoding The Gurus. Grok says: Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey’s character from True Detective Season 1, would likely view McConaughey’s self-help venture with a mix of disdain and philosophical skepticism. Cohle’s … Continue reading
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National Interest Vs Capital Interest
I’m not a capital supremacist. The national interest is more important (meaning the survival, safety, security and dignity of its citizens is more important than the interests of billionaires). The supremacy of shareholder capitalism allowed Apple to build up America’s … Continue reading