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Why I Do What I Do
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Why I Do What I Do

Oct 20, 2025 1 min read

Why I Do What I Do From KR: “I want you to know that since finding you through the Early to Rise newsletter back in 2001, you have been and continue to…

How Smart Are Crows? The Surprising Intelligence of Corvids
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How Smart Are Crows? The Surprising Intelligence of Corvids

Oct 20, 2025 1 min read

How Smart Are Crows? An animated TED-Ed lesson about the incredible intelligence of corvids and how they express their aptitude for many things

Israel and Palestine: Could This Be the End?
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Israel and Palestine: Could This Be the End?

Oct 14, 2025 1 min read

I’m back from a week in Myrtle Beach, golfing with nine of my high school friends. Well… that’s not true. I hardly golfed at all. Just nine holes on…

A Poem That Sounds Like AI (But Isn’t)
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A Poem That Sounds Like AI (But Isn’t)

Oct 14, 2025 1 min read

This poem was written by Oliver Baez Bendroff, the author of three poetry collections, including Consider the Rooster, a finalist for the 2024 National…

How Acting Quality Transforms a Scene from Lackluster to Spine-Tingling
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How Acting Quality Transforms a Scene from Lackluster to Spine-Tingling

Oct 14, 2025 2 min read

Acting Counts: Lackluster… to Not Bad… to Spine-Tingling I’ve made three movies. One was so bad I destroyed it after I showed it to my 12-year-old son…

A Mural of Central American Masters
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A Mural of Central American Masters

Oct 14, 2025 1 min read

Hint: It’s on the outside of the building where I have my main office. It was inspired a bit by Diego Rivera’s mural “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in…

Robin Williams Explains Why Golfers Throw Clubs in Ponds
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Robin Williams Explains Why Golfers Throw Clubs in Ponds

Oct 14, 2025 1 min read

The Man Who Invented Golf If you want to know why so many perfectly good athletes are never happy with their golf scores and are frequently seen…

Why I’m Writing About Politics Today
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Why I’m Writing About Politics Today

Oct 7, 2025 1 min read

Apologies in advance to readers who tell me that they wish I wouldn’t write about political and social issues. I’ll be back with lighter and brighter…

Israel, Iran, and American Power
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Israel, Iran, and American Power

Oct 7, 2025 1 min read

Israel, Iran, and American Power I saw these two pieces just before I put this issue to bed – and they’re quite good. The first one is a debate between…

Campus Terror: Why an IDF Veteran Felt Safer in Gaza Than at DePaul
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Campus Terror: Why an IDF Veteran Felt Safer in Gaza Than at DePaul

Oct 7, 2025 3 min read

One Man’s Story: “I felt safer in Gaza than I do on that campus” When Max Long graduated from high school in Boston in 2015, he made Aliyah (emigrated…

Why Did Candace Owens Become an Antisemite?
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Why Did Candace Owens Become an Antisemite?

Oct 7, 2025 1 min read

Why Did Candace Owens Become an Antisemite? This is the first time I’ve been acquainted with Tovia Singer. The guy is very impressive. Click here

Rob Rinder on the Troubling Rise of Antisemitism in 2025
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Rob Rinder on the Troubling Rise of Antisemitism in 2025

Oct 7, 2025 1 min read

Rob Rinder: “Countless examples of antisemitism in 2025” TV personality Rob Rinder talks to Sky’s Sarah-Jane Mee about the “spike in antisemitic hate…