Language not only captures experience, it conditions it. It sets expectations for experience and gives shape to it as it happens. What might register as inarticulateness can reflect a different way of understanding and experiencing[…]
While Apple, Starbucks, and Sierra Nevada Brewing have grown into multinational businesses, they desire to cling to their pioneering first days, where they were product driven companies out of necessity. Profit and growth could not[…]
Programs for the poor are poor programs. And they are made poorer when they fail, and when they are needed most. Natural disasters like blizzards, earthquakes, and hurricanes drive reform and the allocation of resources,[…]
I have no difficulty if someone wants to criticize, even sharply, Open Orthodox writers, as long as there are no personal attacks. In fact, if the criticisms of Rabbi Gordimer and others were offered on[…]
Starting with the ornate melancholia of “Take Care,” from 2011, Drake elevated the unfurling of one’s imperfections into an art form. It wasn’t just his interest in scrutinizing his own contradictions, by now a trope[…]
A debate over the naming rights for the broader categorization of flavorful beer has raged since the new wave of post-light lager emerged in the early 1980s. By mid-decade, America hosted a mere handful of[…]
If you want to understand why “Netflix and chill” has replaced dinner and a movie, you need to look at how people work. Today, people are constantly told that we must be flexible and adaptable[…]
…Orthodox answer is “to keep the commandments.” That suffices, we are reassured, because when Jews do that, Jews will be a light unto the nations. But how can you be a light if almost no[…]
If some viewed microbrew as an outmoded label, few agreed on the proper replacement term. Beer writers, brewers, retailers and the media have spent the better part of two decades arguing over the right label,[…]
Dating itself is a recent invention. It developed when young people began moving to cities and women began working outside private homes. By 1900, 44 percent of single American women worked. Previously, courtship had taken[…]