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On Being Hated (at Brown): A Postscript
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David Klinghoffer
Yesterday I wrote about the personal viciousness that issues from the Left in a way it doesn’t from the Right. This actually played a big role in the development of my own thinking, both religious (toward Orthodox Judaism) and political (toward conservatism). When I was a Brown University junior, I was picked to be an…
On Being Hated: A Note to — and About — Readers
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David Klinghoffer
Good news: As I know from the weekly reports I get from Beliefnet, traffic on this still relatively new blog keeps going up. That’s heartening. Yet if you follow the comments box at all here you will have noticed something odd: this blog seems disproportionately popular with people who hate me and everything I stand…
Deciding When to Delete Comments
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David Klinghoffer
It can be a bit of a dilemma. I take down defamatory comments when I catch them — e.g., from the guy who hides behind religious-sounding pseudonyms but wants to use the combox to defame other people by name and then calls me a “coward” for deleting him. I want normal people of whatever view…
Rules of the Blog: Lessons from the Second Temple
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David Klinghoffer
Let’s talk about some rules I’m now initiating in this space, which will become more relevant as the blog, so I hope, grows. According to the Talmud, God allowed the first Temple in Jerusalem to be destroyed by the Babylonians because the Jews at the time engaged in sexual immortality, idol worship, and murder. That…
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