My Awesome Newsletter

34th Mailing

September 5, 2026

If old guys are lucky, they are able to spend some time every now and then thinking about the things they appreciate about life. Today, I am thinking about...

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33rd Mailing

September 3, 2026

Today’s six essays, the last in the current AI series, all premised on the understanding that AI is clearly here to stay, offer different kinds of answers to...

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32nd Mailing

September 1, 2026

For today’s AI mailing, I have selected six essays from a recent University of Virginia journal, Continuum. The theme of the issue is, essentially: how did...

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31st Mailing

August 30, 2026

Today’s mailing as well, as Tuesday’s and Thursday’s, will all focus on AI, each devoted to a different theme. Today’s theme is an attempt to establish a...

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Alert

August 29, 2026

I have been reliably informed that the audio link I sent yesterday did not work. Here is a correction that does work....

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30th Mailing

August 28, 2026

Today, a look at Israel beyond the upcoming election, the horrors on the West Bank, anti-semitism in the diaspora, and a myriad of other concerns. Today, a...

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28th-29th Mailing

August 24, 2026

Today’s mailing is a double-barreled exploration of Israel. 1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SoMCvLMIYNs&pp=ygUJRGFuIERhdmlk This first video is a link to a...

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Alert

August 22, 2026

I just discovered that I had forgotten to open the links in today’s mailing. They are now open. My apologies.

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27th Mailing

August 22, 2026

Today will be an Atlantic Monthly day. More specifically, today’s three Atlantic essays provide different answers to the question: What should the U.S....

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26th Mailing

August 20, 2026

Old guys wonder a lot what the American future will be. This piece by Jonathan Martin, which includes talking to a few old guys, hits a high note....

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25th Mailing

August 18, 2026

Old guys spend a disproportionate amount of time in hospitals. Thus, no surprise, they spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about ways health...

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24th Mailing

August 16, 2026

It is mid-August. Summer camp will soon be ending and college will soon be starting: a good time to examine both fixtures of American culture. Some of this...

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23rd Mailing

August 14, 2026

About two weeks ago the Haaretz English edition published an extraordinary interview with a world-class Israeli philosopher, Avishai Margalit. I found myself...

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Alert

August 12, 2026

Alert I just discovered that I had forgotten to open two of the links in today’s mailing. They are now open. My apologies.

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22nd Mailing

August 12, 2026

The Odyssey comes for all men. On Monday, it came for me in Rishon l’Tzion, Israel on an IMAX screen, which the stranger sitting next to me assured me was a...

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21st Mailing

August 10, 2026

For today, how about a fascinating take on contemporary Russian life from a female perspective with a Jewish soupçon? Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing...

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Eighth Mailing Addendum

August 9, 2026

You will recall that on July 15th I sent you an essay, which I described as, “ … brilliant, very interesting, quite funny, and most certainly, relevant....

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20th Mailing

August 8, 2026

In Israel the INSS at Tel Aviv University plays a role similar to that, which the RAND Corporation played in the U.S. during the Cold War. Thus, its policy...

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19th Mailing

August 6, 2026

Every year on August 6th I recall running into my childhood home and announcing, “America just dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. What’s an atomic bomb?” Ojld...

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18th Mailing

August 4, 2026

I haven’t gotten around to reading Regime Change yet although, after I read today’s essay, it has moved up the list. I think the essay is important reading...

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