“The present moment…is the most productive in the nation’s history”
Manufacturing retains its powerful hold on the American imagination for good reason. In the years after World War II, factory work created […]
Month: October 2016
“…the most modern technology is providing outreach to people in search of an older, traditional lifestyle”
The use of the internet by orthodox groups also suggests a paradox: the most modern technology is providing outreach to people in […]
“Continuous improvement is of no use if you’re not improving the right things”
Customer service seems worse than it once was. Most companies underinvest in it, because they see it purely as a cost center, […]
“A good number of voters seem to have decided that the choice this year is between two candidates they don’t like”
A good number of voters seem to have decided that the choice this year is between two candidates they don’t like, one […]
“Kanye’s career-long fixation on his own contradictions eventually consolidated into an aesthetic…who wallow in soft self-loathing and explain away their loutish behavior as the result of melancholy and bruised ego”
His career-long fixation on his own contradictions eventually consolidated into an aesthetic, one that gave rise to a generation of male artists, […]
“…before 1968, primaries hardly mattered; since 1968, the Conventions have hardly mattered”
The protests at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 resulted in a change in the balance of power between the primaries […]
“Oxidation flavors in finished beer are the product of the combined effect of dissolved oxygen, time, and temperature”
Oxidation flavors in finished beer are the product of the combined effect of [dissolved oxygen] DO, time, and temperature. An excess of […]
“…the meaning of התפלל is to make oneself the object of God’s פלל (assessment, intervention, or judging)”
Most likely, the hitpael form in the case of התפלל is doing the same thing as the hitpael form in the case […]
“…degrading one’s ideological opponents despite their great Torah knowledge…stands at the root of all the terrible disputes in the haredi world”
A basic feature of “official” haredism, especially in Israel, is the attitude that even if someone is a great posek, he is […]
“The manufacturing boom of the postwar years was an oddity, and there will be no repeat of the concatenation that made it happen…”
The manufacturing boom of the postwar years was an oddity, and there will be no repeat of the concatenation that made it […]
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