Manufacturing retains its powerful hold on the American imagination for good reason. In the years after World War II, factory work created a broadly shared prosperity that helped make the American middle class. People without[…]
The use of the internet by orthodox groups also suggests a paradox: the most modern technology is providing outreach to people in search of an older, traditional lifestyle. The Internet provides a forum for the[…]
Customer service seems worse than it once was. Most companies underinvest in it, because they see it purely as a cost center, rather than a source of potential profits, and so workers are undertrained. Customer-service[…]
A good number of voters seem to have decided that the choice this year is between two candidates they don’t like, one of whom they see as crazy and the other as corrupt. (And, in[…]
His career-long fixation on his own contradictions eventually consolidated into an aesthetic, one that gave rise to a generation of male artists, such as Drake and The Weeknd, who wallow in soft self-loathing and explain[…]
The protests at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 resulted in a change in the balance of power between the primaries and the Conventions: before 1968, primaries hardly mattered; since 1968, the Conventions have[…]
Oxidation flavors in finished beer are the product of the combined effect of [dissolved oxygen] DO, time, and temperature. An excess of any of these three oxidative factors can render a wonderful beer undrinkable. The[…]
Most likely, the hitpael form in the case of התפלל is doing the same thing as the hitpael form in the case of התחנן: it is turning the word into a voluntary passive/indirect reflexive. Hence,[…]
A basic feature of “official” haredism, especially in Israel, is the attitude that even if someone is a great posek, he is still disqualified if he doesn’t follow the correct Da’as Torah. It is hard[…]
The manufacturing boom of the postwar years was an oddity, and there will be no repeat of the concatenation that made it happen: The backlog of innovations stored up during the Great Depression and World[…]