“the quaint “retail” settings of Iowa diners and New Hampshire living rooms are treated mostly as media sound stages”
…in general, the quaint “retail” settings of Iowa diners and New Hampshire living rooms...
Monthly Archives: August 2014
“Those who lack faith in fixed order and stable places have a harder time building monuments that must…be monolithically stable and certain”
Those who lack faith in fixed order and stable places have a harder time...
“Immersive reporting is essential if news is to serve its purpose and help us construct any real sense of the world”
Such immersive reporting is essential if news is to serve its purpose and help...
“Talking about the non-halakhic aspects of Taharat HaMishpacha should be another part of the healthy marriage toolkit”
No new bride should ever have to feel isolated and scared because of the...
The Parable of the Samaritan “came to contrast the love of the political enemy preached by Christianity with that of Judaism”
Although Jesus himself was implacable with the political enemies of the Jews, referring to...
“Gaza is locked into a war of fruitless aggression, battling an enemy that only really exists in the Palestinian imagination”
But Hamas cannot relent. To surrender their anti-colonial campaign, to move from a strategy...
“The masculinity of the ancient was measured by two criteria”
The masculinity of the ancient was measured by two criteria: (1) his prowess in...
“The Christian doctrine of loving the persecutor allows the victim’s self to be invaded by the oppressor and to be subverted into a mimetic relationship”
The Christian doctrine of loving the persecutor allows the victim’s self to be invaded...
“The attempt to locate menstruation in the mythical beginnings of humankind is…a peculiarly Babylonian development”
In contemporary English slang, menstruation is sometimes referred to as “The Curse.” Interestingly, the...
When Mathematical Innumeracy Affects Hamburger Choices
One of the most vivid arithmetic failings displayed by Americans occurred in the early...