“IPAs fail in three areas: wort production, fermentation, and distribution/retail”
IPAs fail in three areas: wort production, fermentation, and distribution/retail. Many brewers often overlook...
Monthly Archives: February 2016
“Revolutions in communication tend to pull the people away from the élites”
Revolutions in communication tend to pull the people away from the élites. (The printing...
“Prohibition took effect in January, 1920, and, all at once, people really did stop drinking, at least for a time”
Prohibition took effect in January, 1920, and, all at once, people really did stop...
“Maybe a world not fixated on atonement and moral imperatives is more conducive to a rousing tale”
In Scotland, Bateman, in turn, suggests the difference between the countries may be that...
“The Internet is a vast, interactive museum engineered by curators and augmented by other visitors’ preferences”
The Internet is a vast, interactive museum engineered by curators and augmented by other...
” The energy of this campaign has been generated on the margins, by two kinds of Americans: younger, better-educated, more urban ones on the Democratic side; older, more working-class, whiter ones on the Republican side.”
Sanders’s persistently surprising popularity shows that the Democratic establishment grasped the deep alienation of...
“The American two-party system is a creation of the press”
The American two-party system is a creation of the press. “The idea of a...
“Behind Trump’s success is an unerring instinct for harnessing anger, resentment, and fear”
Behind Trump’s success is an unerring instinct for harnessing anger, resentment, and fear. His...
“Should Auschwitz or Sinai be the orienting category shaping our understanding of the rebirth of the State of Israel?”
One of the fundamental issues facing the new spirit of maturity in Israel is:...
“If we can have, say, feminist or Marxist or poststructuralist readings of great texts, we can have Chasidic readings of them whether or not they have any explicit Jewish content
If we can have, say, feminist or Marxist or poststructuralist readings of great texts,...