Politics in America “This is not going to be a ‘there’s no difference between the candidates’ election” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2016 This is not going to be a “there’s no difference between the candidates” election....
Races in America “Mr. Trump is an unlikely spokesman for the grievances of financially struggling, alienated Americans…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2016 Mr. Trump is an unlikely spokesman for the grievances of financially struggling, alienated Americans:...
Uncategorized “Even austerity can be made decadent: To wealthy practitioners, minimalism is now little more than a slightly intriguing perversion…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 August 2016 “Minimalism” was eventually canonized as an art-historical movement, but the name came to mean...
Social Media, Twitter “Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 August 2016 Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces....
Races in America “Telling someone to ‘check their privilege’ can be a means to discredit different opinions merely because people who express them belong to a certain racial category” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 August 2016 “White privilege” is too broad a term. It lumps a white Walmart employee with...
Uncategorized “Part pop philosophy and part aesthetic, minimalism presents a cure-all for a certain sense of capitalist overindulgence” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 August 2016 Despite its connotations of absence, “minimalism” has been popping up everywhere lately, like a...
Jobs/Professions, Work “There’s more to life than whether you got this job or that fellowship” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 August 2016 It’s important for people to establish a sense of their own value beyond some...
Uncategorized “The fetishized austerity and performative asceticism of minimalism is a kind of ongoing cultural sickness” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 August 2016 There’s an arrogance to today’s minimalism that presumes it provides an answer rather than,...
Law, Trial “The law of evidence that reigns in the domain of childhood is essentially medieval” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 August 2016 The law of evidence that reigns in the domain of childhood is essentially medieval....
Jewish “…Ozick, however fierce her identification as a Jew, is admirable in her freedom from identitarian parti pris” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 August 2016 Ozick the channeler of the literary past may seem remote from our present literary...