Phillip Dolitsky

Currently Off X | Speechwriter | Military Strategist and Ethicist | Thinking things, not words | Unrelenting Realist | Analog Life Enthusiast |

[Phillip Dolitsky @phillyd97]

Logging off X for a little bit. Find me at my Substack if you'd like to connect!

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@theratthew76 https://t.co/4AtyYWGGxp

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@MatthewJFranck @zenahitz @BryanGarnerLaw Copy that. TLDR--I was helping a teacher with some grammar instruction for her high school class. They were writing reviews of books and she asked me if there is a preferred style she should be encouraging them to use. All of the reviews had something like these opening sentences

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Not sure if @BryanAGarner is still active, but was wondering if anyone might be able to help me here.

Grammatically and/or stylistically, which one of these sentences is best:

"In Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations..."
"In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens..."

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@JaycelAdkins I've always wondered about this book. Is it really worth the dive in? Pitch it to me, friend!

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@zenahitz @stjohnscollege Sign me up!

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@HershyMarton The correct answer is Hunki's Pizza in the Five Towns

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@KassyKosher The part that I keep laughing about is that no one seems up in arms about the kashrus agency that certified the kosher cheeseburger. I mean, there's nothing wrong with what they did. But I find it funny that it's wrong for smash house to have it, but not wrong to certify it

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@PhilipDBunn Love this essay. Can you think of any other essayists who touch on the theme Berry does in this essay?

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Taking a break from my Twitter break to just say that I’ve been reading this book and am finding it really incredible. Ramban has not gotten his scholarly due, so this is a truly monumental work. Learning so much on every page

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@second_sailing Make sure to include that in your bio blurb. CC @DBashIdeas

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[Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @ChountisFabbri]

The crisis facing Western statecraft isn’t too much legalism or too little realism. It’s a crisis of formation. Why the polymath-statesman disappeared – and why that matters now. My new essay for @EngelsbergIdeas

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@KassyAkiva And I am looking forward to it :)

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@PhilipDBunn I think the Phillips are in sync about this

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@AaronBMacLean @CBSNews @TheFP @schoolofwarpod Congrats, Aaron. Very well deserved. Can't wait to see your continued growth!

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Very grateful to the fine folks at @EngelsbergIdeas for turning the essay I wrote with @lukemoon1 into an audio essay. Give it a listen!

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🎧The EI Podcast: The rise of the mega-influencer

Mega-influencers shape the public imagination. @phillyd97 and @lukemoon1 explore a world where narrative matters more than fact.

https://t.co/TKWVeHgiPn

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@ElliotKaufman6 For some reason, my shul figured that I, the speechwriter, was somehow calling the shots

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@VictoriaCoates @daniel_flesch Daniel is a blessing to the DC world. Grateful to call him a friend.

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@MatthewJFranck I need to get me one of those

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@zenahitz When I was in grad school, one of my professors said to the class that "Thucydides has not had a greater hype man in all of world history than Phillip Dolitsky." He's my man :)

But I agree with the assessment. One must be very careful with him. Too many times he's read sloppily