Movies “Back before Buffy and Katniss, Besson was one of the only directors championing stories with women as action leads” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 August 2017 Back before Buffy and Katniss, Besson was one of the only directors championing stories...
Life Advice “Good feedback opens with praise/thanks, demonstrates you were paying attention and engages the subject matter” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 August 2017 Good feedback opens with praise/thanks, demonstrates you were paying attention and engages the subject...
Politics in America “Every day, Trump wakes up and erodes the dignity of the Presidency a little more” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 August 2017 Trump is hardly the first bad President in American history—he has not had adequate...
Society “As is often the case with fringe organizations who take on targets with significant more social capital than their own, their campaign is a tapestry of misinformation, disinformation, and a theory of cross-contamination which imagines that decontextualized anecdotal evidence can be most effectively understood, and then constructed into coherence, through the framework of conspiracy theory” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 August 2017 As is often the case with fringe organizations who take on targets with significant...
Europe, Politics in America “Everyone knows that populism has fundamentally altered the rules of Western politics. But no one has deduced what the new rules are” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2017 Everyone knows that populism has fundamentally altered the rules of Western politics. But no...
Politics in America “Trump began his national ascendancy by hoisting the racist banner of birtherism. Since then, as candidate and as President, he has found countless ways to pollute the national atmosphere” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 August 2017 Trump began his national ascendancy by hoisting the racist banner of birtherism. Since then,...
Politics in America, Races in America “The guiding principle in Mr. Trump’s government is to turn the politics of white resentment into the policies of white rage…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 August 2017 If there is one consistent thread through Mr. Trump’s political career, it is his...
Relationships “If healthy relationships…are predicated on answerability, it makes sense that a lack of communication would feel like a breach of trust” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2017 It’s no coincidence that ghosting arose as a collective fascination at a time of...
Rabbinic Literature, Talmudic Sages “For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2017 For the rabbis, breastfeeding offers a fascinating set of variables for academic investigation. First,...
Judaism “…when the status of Tisha be-Av is argued frontally and ideologically, the result is friction, dissention, and a status quo stalemate” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 August 2017 …when the status of Tisha be-Av is argued frontally and ideologically, the result is...