Politics in America “The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous dilemma for a lot of other people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 November 2015 The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous...
Reform Judaism “Today, half of all married Reform Jews have non-Jewish spouses, and 80 percent of those who married between 2000 and 2013 wed non-Jewish spouses” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 November 2015 Today, half of all married Reform Jews have non-Jewish spouses, and 80 percent of...
Marriage, Marriage, Modern Orthodoxy “Continuity is not an end in itself, but a culture’s purpose is not to be an ephemeral work of performance art” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 November 2015 Marriage in the classical sense is a commitment to sustainability. Continuity is not an...
Uncategorized “Cities change. It is their nature.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 November 2015 Cities change. It is their nature. Those which stop changing stop being cities. Cities...
Journalism “Journalistic interviews in the United States increasingly began to appear in the 1860s” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 November 2015 Journalistic interviews in the United States increasingly began to appear in the 1860s. Before...
Culture “…many things…fall in and out of fashion for reasons that have more to do with fashion than with reason” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 November 2015 Surely many things, including bikes, fall in and out of fashion for reasons that...
Politics in America “…the core of Trump’s phenomenon is his celebrity itself, which, in today’s America, is in fact as populist as it gets” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 November 2015 …while populism is often associated with grass-roots movements, Trump’s brand of it flows not...
Food “For a generation that spends more and more of its time virtually, food is tangible, immediate and gratifying” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 November 2015 Last spring I taught a course at USC Annenberg School of Journalism called “Food,...
Gender, University “Why do we rewrite the rules, effectively disempowering women to protect themselves from the risks of their own behavior?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 November 2015 “Reframing the Victim” struck on what seems to be a strangely flawed feminist logic...
University “One reason it is difficult to track funding to the BDS campaign is that there is no central coordinating organization” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 November 2015 One reason it is difficult to track funding to the BDS campaign is that...