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Religion, politics, etc. Things can seem pretty broken—but there is a way back. It will definitely involve neighborhood, religion (in my case, Judaism), family, other old truths. And coffee ice cream. And the way-back seat in the station wagon.
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Who has the worse take on antisemitism, Roxane Gay or M Gessen? (opens the original)
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Of all the ways to think about antisemitism—as a bigotry, as a conspiracy theory, as “the oldest hatred”—one of the most useful is as a kind of brain rot. Something about Jew hatred (sort of like Trump hatred, come to think of it) is that it infects not only the holder of the opinion but the people around her; it is also a form of stupidity that makes people stupid in other ways. It’s like the odor of skunkweed: you don’t have to be the one who smoked it, it’s enough just to have been in the roo
Will this college dropout be Alaska’s youngest governor? (opens the original)
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Today, a short one.Years ago, I was supposed to advise a senior essay by a Yale student named Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. He just had to finish this one paper and take a few more classes and he’d have a college degree. But first he was taking the fall term off to run a longshot campaign for the Alaska state legislature. He was probably going to lose, after which he’d come back and take his degree.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M1M3!,f_auto
Is AI good for religion? (opens the original)
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Jason Arday, Ward Churchill, and the Ghostwriter’s Dilemma (opens the original)
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One of the curiously unremarked-upon aspects of L’affaire Arday (should it be styled Ardé?) is that his new memoir, published Tuesday by Simon & Schuster, was written by a cowriter (I don’t think it’s a “ghostwriter” if the name is public, as Eve Claxton’s is). None of this is a surprise if any version of Arday’s life is true: if he was as developmentally delayed with language as he claimed to be, then one imagines he might, years later, need a cowriter—but also, if he was lying about being deve
Richard Russo and the Left Behind (opens the original)
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