Business, Politics in America “Regulating Wall Street is an Old Testament sort of affair: Like Leviticus, it is all about the persnickety details” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 August 2015 Regulating Wall Street is an Old Testament sort of affair: Like Leviticus, it is...
Talmud “Talmud…means ‘study’…, but also ‘instruction, teaching’…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 August 2015 Talmud (from lamad, ‘to learn’, or limmad, ‘to teach’) means ‘study’ (a theoretical activity,...
Internet, Radio, Technology, Television “Publishing used to require access to a printing press and, as a result, the act of publishing something was limited to a tiny fraction of the population…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 August 2015 Publishing used to require access to a printing press and, as a result, the...
Scholarship “When one’s picture of the past is based on a single set of texts, the encounter with a new source of information is likely to provoke much reflection and revision…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 August 2015 When one’s picture of the past is based on a single set of texts,...
Sex “Of all the great love lyrics, Shakespeare’s sonnets are the most relentlessly mysterious and even mystical in expression…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 August 2015 …is love just the sentimentalist’s word for sex? This is what makes the fascination...
Semantics “…the shine has come off this hardy, once-helpful word” (privilege) Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 August 2015 …the shine has come off this hardy, once-helpful word. It looks a little worn,...