“So what are we really talking about when we talk about natural? It depends…”
So what are we really talking about when we talk about natural? It depends; the adjective is impressively slippery, its use steeped […]
Month: May 2015
“…if nature offers a moral standard by which we can measure ourselves, and a set of values to which we should aspire, exactly what sort of values are they?”
Implicit here is the idea that nature is a repository of abiding moral and ethical values — and that we can say […]
“Once you designate some spaces as safe, you imply that the rest are unsafe”
Some people trace safe spaces back to the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1960s and 1970s, others to the gay and lesbian […]
“…the term “whore” does not necessarily have to be misogynist, but it was in the context…”
I should not have just called [redacted] a whore. She’s a loathsome and awful human being, but this has nothing to do […]
“A genuine, spiritually and theologically grounded, rabbinic voice is missing from the American Jewish community’s Israel conversation”
Rabbinic talk is not political talk. Political does not mean partisan. Political talk focuses on the strategic and tactical questions of the […]
“There is a fine line…between legitimate criticism, which is what Israel deserves, and illegitimate criticism”
The 20th century produced many international conflicts that were clear-cut, black-and-white, good-and-evil. … The Israeli Palestinian/Israeli Arab/Israeli Muslim clash is not black-and-white. […]
“…when the orders are reworded to say “allow natural death,” patients and family members and even medical professionals are much more likely to give their consent…”
It seems that getting end-of-life patients and their families to endorse “do not resuscitate” orders has been challenging. To many ears, “D.N.R.” […]
“One point of beat-up bluejeans is to bother good taste, which is a muscular aesthetic stance, a canny market footing and an ambiguous moral position”
One point of beat-up bluejeans is to bother good taste, which is a muscular aesthetic stance, a canny market footing and an […]
“Such street culture is simply the black urban version of one of America’s most iconic traditions: the Wild West”
In all inner-city neighborhoods, however, there is a problem minority that varies between about 12.1 percent (in San Diego, for example) and […]
“…the whole proposition of nakba is problematic insofar as it sets up Israel’s creation as a zero-sum game”
…the whole proposition of nakba is problematic insofar as it sets up Israel’s creation as a zero-sum game: Israeli independence as a […]
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Tagged Definition, Semantics, Terminology, Words