Music, Races in America “The charting system was predicated on a segregated market” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 January 2017 Rock and roll is usually explained as rhythm-and-blues music—that is, music performed by black...
Politics in America “When Republicans have total control of the government, they will bear the responsibility for its failures” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 January 2017 Throughout the Obama administration, the G.O.P. has had the mind-set of an opposition party,...
Music “…rock and roll…is music that anyone can play (or can imagine playing) and everyone can dance to” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 January 2017 …rock and roll…is music that anyone can play (or can imagine playing) and everyone...
Politics in America “The state of our politics also explains why none of the revelations, outrages or gaffes seemed to dent Mr. Trump’s popularity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 January 2017 When I wrote in August 2015 that Mr. Trump was a cartoon version of...
Courtship/Dating, Internet, Websites “It’s never been cheaper to start a dating site and never been more expensive to grow one” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2017 There are about 4,500 online dating companies, according to a report by the market...
Politics in America “By denying known and provable facts…or by rejecting facts that are not publicly known…, Mr. Trump exercises his ever-growing power over the public sphere” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2017 If there is one trait that Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of...
Modern Orthodoxy “The question is not…whether our Modern Orthodox high school students are prepared to engage with the non-Jewish world…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 January 2017 The question is not…whether our Modern Orthodox high school students are prepared to engage...
Uncategorized “None of us, having achieved success in whatever realm, wants to think that it was the product of the circumstances that set us up for success…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 January 2017 None of us, having achieved success in whatever realm, wants to think that it...
Money, Races in America “Contrary to our popular assumptions about the intent and effect of both the New Deal and the G.I. Bill, they were not intended to, nor did they, provide all poor Americans with equal economic opportunity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 January 2017 Up through at least the middle of the twentieth century, the government of the...
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “Unity and comity are good things, but I am not at all convinced that the community is better served by a false front that tries to conceal or patch the deep discord behind it than by frank acknowledgment of irreconcilable differences” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 January 2017 Ultimately, as many areas of common ground as we can find, and as much...