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Philosophy and Fight Sports: Project Overview

I’m starting a series of articles on the history, philosophy, and politics of martial arts and fight sports. If you’re interested, tune in.

5 min readAug 8, 2023

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Philosophy and Fight Sports: Project Overview

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Grappling with Goals; why submission grappling and MMA are diverging

There’s enormous variation across grappling styles. Even as grappling styles converge around similar core ideas and techniques, differences…

9 min readNov 30, 2023

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Grappling with Goals; why submission grappling and MMA are diverging

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How to Pick a Fight; or “Ducks and Chickens”

It’s a dirty, four letter word that ends in “uck.”

10 min readOct 5, 2023

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Fight Sports and Organized Crime; the money laundering bit

Suppose you’re a mob boss. You have a set of illicit enterprises. Those illicit businesses bring in money you want to launder…

8 min readSep 21, 2023

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Fight Sports and Organized Crime; the money laundering bit

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When Davids Slay Goliaths, and the beauty of grappling

My favorite fighter is a 5’9 professional wrestler with a mullet.

10 min readAug 14, 2023

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When Davids Slay Goliaths, and the beauty of grappling

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Martial Arts and Nations’ Pride

Xu Xiaodong is a curiosity in martial arts. Millions of people have seen his fights, but Xu has never fought in a major MMA promotion.

9 min readAug 9, 2023

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What’s a Jew to Do? Jewish-Christian dialogue today

Jewish-Christian interfaith dialogue is failing to curb rising Christian antisemitism. I think we should keep doing it anyway.

14 min readDec 29, 2022

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Four panelists at an Ethics Center event title “Religious Diversity at Fresno State. Slide reads, “sponsored by the Ethics Center at Fresno State; co-sponsored by the Philosophy Club, Jewish Studies Association, the Philosophy Department, and the Newman Center.”

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Making white supremacists, a case study

Rod Dreher is currently a senior editor at The American Conservative (what I refer to throughout as AmConMag). He has written variously for…

8 min readAug 8, 2021

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Making white supremacists, a case study

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Fix the Internet

Reactionary and viable proposals for a huge problem

13 min readAug 30, 2020

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Fix the Internet

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Uncivil Religion in America; notes on religion in American politics, morals

The other day, Michael Gerson published an editorial in the Washington Post with the header “Kamala Harris exacerbates Biden’s existing…

8 min readAug 17, 2020

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Joshua Stein

Joshua Stein

Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University. Ph.D. in Philosophy, working on ethics, economics, antisemitism, and other pressing issues.

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