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Me
Who the eff is I? Please watch this video before reading: http://vimeo.com/49837592. (Note: The creator of the video decided to make the film private, and it is no longer accessible. But please read...
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“But who will tame the savage drivers?”: A case for relaxing our traffic rules
Jeff runs reds in the middle of the desert Last night, a police officer pulled me over for speeding through a blacked out intersection in the desolate wasteland formerly known as Teaneck, NJ. I thanked...
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The libertarian paternalistic defense of the YU internet filters: A critique
Jeff means “Jeff.” Not “higher Jeff,” “”true Jeff,” or “real Jeff.” Josh Halpern, a student at Yeshiva University, recently wrote a piece defending YU’s controversial decision to implement an Internet...
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Austrian Man and Me
Jeffrey ist Österreicher. At its most basic, economic modeling is about simplification and abstraction. In order to give useful explanations of economic phenomena, the economist must isolate variables...
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So, You Think You Need Extended Time?
Sometimes, when he doesn’t do as well as he should have, Jeff wonders whether he has a learning disability. The Diagnosis I was diagnosed with a learning disability in kindergarten. It was the...
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Happy New Year Jeff!
JEFF prepared a 2012 annual report for his blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,600 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of...
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Platitudes
We love to hate a good cliché. The shameful refrain that freezes the dance of our nimble language. Yet, in moments of weakness, we crumble under the weight of silence. We caulk the void with black...
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A Paean to Proust
For me, Marcel Proust’s prose often outshined the objects they depicted. In Swann’s Way, a book I picked up shortly after graduating from college, flowers are likened time and again to stars....
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Wagner’s Anti-Semitism and Me: Struggling with an Artist’s Troubling Legacy
Living at home sucks. There’s just no getting around it. It’s the little things that get to you. Like when you bring home a six-pack of Weihenstephaner—yeah, it’s imported—and the first thing your dad...
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Why No One Should Have to Change Their Name
Jeff wonders: is there a word for feminism, but for men? Is there even room for such a word? Jill Filipovic’s recent piece, “Why should married women change their names?” is thoughtful and well...
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Sunk Costs and Elevators
Jeff would rather ride the escalator anyway… The elevator took an oppressively long time to pick me up from the eighth floor today. As I waited and waited – and waited, and waited – I finally gave up...
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Why I read the news — and you should too.
Jeff can’t be bothered. I graduated from college at a time of great political and economic uncertainty. Two wars, congressional gridlock, and a global financial crisis had all taken their toll. For the...
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Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month Bad?
Jeff likes to stutter, “B…b…b…but the corporations!” Below is a point-by point response to a particularly gratuitous attack on the Breast Cancer Awareness phenomenon. Please read the article first, and...
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Checkin’ My Privilege and It Feels so…
Jeff checked his privilege. It was brown, wrinkled, and a little bit crusty. Let’s crawl, for one minute, out of the cavernous apertures nestled between our ivory-colored ass cheeks and honestly...
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Social Justice Activist Writes Facebook Post, Brings Israeli-Palestinian...
At 10:46 EST on July 10th, 2014, Israeli and Palestinian leadership stood side by side at the site of a dilapidated home in Gaza and jointly announced a resolution to the decades-long...
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Al-Qassam Brigades Launch Babies into Israel, Claim “Right of Return”
After days of continuous rocket fire into and out of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian military leaders have devised a new offensive strategy, with an eye towards long-term territorial reoccupation. In an...
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BREAKING: New Kosher D.C. Restaurant to Partner with McFadden’s Restaurant...
Washington D.C.’s newest Kosher restaurant, Char Bar and Eli’s Marketplace (formerly Eli’s Restaurant), has agreed to form a strategic partnership with McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon, the popular...
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Israeli Chief Rabbinate Issues Ruling on Breast Cancer Awareness Month
After weeks of intense debate concerning the rising tide of breast cancer awareness, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel issued a statement yesterday condemning the month and all dedicated funding for the...
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Kanye West Chimes in on Paper Spread, Admits to Being “More of a Boob Guy”
Amid the hysteria surrounding the recent 360° tour of Kim Kardashian’s body, one voice has remained conspicuously silent: husband Kanye West’s. But early Friday morning, Kanye joined the chorus of...
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Third-world Adventures in Costa Rica
Jeff loves writing about things that are different than him I landed in San Jose, Costa Rica yesterday and was fascinated to learn that Costa Rica is home to cities called “San Jose”, “San Francisco”,...
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