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A Scream into the Void
On the infuriating power and pervasiveness of the Misinformed Voter
Jul 16
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Jay Michaelson
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Here's a Crisis You Haven't Read About
Remember the War on Science? Next week, it goes into overdrive.
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Best. Pride. Ever?
God don't like ugly. But we have to fight it together.
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The Most Important Sentence Donald Trump Has Ever Said
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Bari Weiss’s Remarkably Successful Shell Game
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The Messiah of Nihilism
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The Fight for the Rule of Law is On
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The Faith of Charlie Kirk: A Guide
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A Surprising Inauguration Day Emotion
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Worst. Pride. Ever.
Will mainstream gays please wake up from the Grand Privileged Delusion?
Jun 23
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The Most Surprising Thing About Disclosure Day
On aliens, panentheism, and the unpredictable results of peak experience.
Jun 17
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Five Spiritual Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NBA History
Friends, let us now meditate on the New York Knicks.
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A Scream into the Void
On the infuriating power and pervasiveness of the Misinformed Voter
Jul 16
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Jay Michaelson
13
5
3
Here's a Crisis You Haven't Read About
Remember the War on Science? Next week, it goes into overdrive.
Jul 9
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Jay Michaelson
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Best. Pride. Ever?
God don't like ugly. But we have to fight it together.
Jul 1
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Jay Michaelson
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Worst. Pride. Ever.
Will mainstream gays please wake up from the Grand Privileged Delusion?
Jun 23
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Sympathy for Sixty Million Conservatives
Will Republicans put country over politics? It's a tough choice.
Jun 3
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What the Manosphere Has in Common with Martin Luther, Jacob Frank, and Allen Ginsberg
The frisson of Meaning Crisis antinomianism is as old as the New Testament.
Apr 3
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Antisemitism Explodes on the Right, Watchdogs Blame the Left (but the Left has problems too)
The Anti-Antisemitism industry is myopically focused on the Left -- while some on the Left are starting to sound like the Right.
Mar 20
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There is No Single Reason for the Iran War (or Anything Else)
Oversimplification is the handmaiden of dogmatism.
Mar 6
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The Most Surprising Thing About Disclosure Day
On aliens, panentheism, and the unpredictable results of peak experience.
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Psychedelics, Esotericism, Conspiracy Theories, Bowie
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Does Wonder Make You Wonder?
Do peak experiences (religious, psychedelic, or otherwise) make us question our beliefs and identities? And does that make us better people?
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Claude and I Talk About Waterslides and Ego Death
And then I talk about Claude.
May 5
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Making Sense of Psychedelics After April 18
The most important and potentially liberating change in American drug policy came from Donald Trump and Joe Rogan. Here are some ways to think about…
Apr 29
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In Pluribus, Enlightenment Mostly Sucks
The fascinating dharma of Apple TV's most-streamed show
Dec 16, 2025
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Does Mysticism Prove the Existence of God?
Welcome to our new subscriber-only series: Inflection Points.
Aug 28, 2025
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The Closest Thing I Have to Optimism
On better days, I conceive of the global rise in nationalist authoritarianism as an inevitable counter-movement in the dialectic of world history.
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Five Spiritual Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NBA History
Friends, let us now meditate on the New York Knicks.
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Fragments of My Teacher on Shavuot
An early work by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is back in print.
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Does Wonder Make You Wonder?
Do peak experiences (religious, psychedelic, or otherwise) make us question our beliefs and identities? And does that make us better people?
May 14
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A Five-Minute Meditation Check-In
Because you are probably feeling some stuff about the news
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Which Zohran Can You Be?
A personal reflection on finding ways to make a difference and finding your place in the family of things.
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The Real America is Not About Blood and Soil
Ethnonationalist Garbage vs. Six Flags Great Adventure
Oct 22, 2025
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How to Steal the 2026 Election
Here is what I think will happen.
Jul 25, 2025
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How Meditation Helped Me in the Hospital (And After)
Actually, those years of practice really made a difference.
Jun 18, 2025
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Andor and the Banality of Totalitarianism
The psychologies of complicity and resistance -- a parable for our times.
Apr 30, 2025
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AI
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Benjamin Todd: The Worst AI Risks Are Not What You Think
But there is a bright side, really.
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Claude and I Talk About Waterslides and Ego Death
And then I talk about Claude.
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In Pluribus, Enlightenment Mostly Sucks
The fascinating dharma of Apple TV's most-streamed show
Dec 16, 2025
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Ghosts in the Machine
What’s unnerving about AI isn’t how it’s unlike us, but how it's like us.
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A Scream into the Void
On the infuriating power and pervasiveness of the Misinformed Voter
Jul 16
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Jay Michaelson
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Here's a Crisis You Haven't Read About
Remember the War on Science? Next week, it goes into overdrive.
Jul 9
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Jay Michaelson
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How Candace Owens Learned Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories from an Orthodox Rabbi
Why is the world broken? Because the Sabbatean Illuminati keep ruining it, of course.
Apr 21
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It Matters that Marc Andreessen is Sometimes Really Dumb
Optimizing for wealth is different from optimizing for wisdom. Why can't powerful tech elites see that?
Mar 26
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The Most Surprising Thing About Disclosure Day
On aliens, panentheism, and the unpredictable results of peak experience.
Jun 17
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Jay Michaelson
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Fragments of My Teacher on Shavuot
An early work by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is back in print.
May 21
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Jay Michaelson
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F—k the Jews: The Recipe of Antisemitism, from Roald Dahl to the Manosphere
Intellectual scaffolding, affective appeal
Apr 17
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Jay Michaelson
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Heated Rivalry's Closet and Mine
I'd forgotten what my former life was like. HBO's hit show reminded me.
Jan 2
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Meaning Crisis
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Claude and I Talk About Waterslides and Ego Death
And then I talk about Claude.
May 5
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Jay Michaelson
15
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What the Manosphere Has in Common with Martin Luther, Jacob Frank, and Allen Ginsberg
The frisson of Meaning Crisis antinomianism is as old as the New Testament.
Apr 3
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Jay Michaelson
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Maybe Nihilism is the Real Enemy?
And if so, what non-oppressive things can be done about it? (Trigger warning: somewhat uplifting ending.)
Feb 26
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Jay Michaelson
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Universalizing Personal Experience into Cultural Critique
Your personal solution to the Meaning Crisis is not the objectively right solution for everyone.
Nov 26, 2025
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Jay Michaelson
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Religion with a lower-case r
A great remedy for the meaning crisis that few people seem to want.
Nov 13, 2025
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Jay Michaelson
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Judaism
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Fragments of My Teacher on Shavuot
An early work by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is back in print.
May 21
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Jay Michaelson
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How Candace Owens Learned Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories from an Orthodox Rabbi
Why is the world broken? Because the Sabbatean Illuminati keep ruining it, of course.
Apr 21
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Jay Michaelson
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F—k the Jews: The Recipe of Antisemitism, from Roald Dahl to the Manosphere
Intellectual scaffolding, affective appeal
Apr 17
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Jay Michaelson
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Antisemitism Explodes on the Right, Watchdogs Blame the Left (but the Left has problems too)
The Anti-Antisemitism industry is myopically focused on the Left -- while some on the Left are starting to sound like the Right.
Mar 20
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Jay Michaelson
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