February 2018 – Excerpted

“The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws”

26 February 201825 February 2018 Drew KaplanModern Orthodoxy

The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws: Jewish organizations are too top heavy, with too many positions filled by wives and cronies, and with amply-paid rabbis who are out[…]

“Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves…”

25 February 201825 February 2018 Drew KaplanClothing

It’s not good manners for women to tell other women how to dress; that’s the job of male fashion photographers. Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves —[…]

“Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces”

25 February 2018 Drew KaplanBusiness

The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define, easy to misunderstand, growing rapidly but not yet vital or even familiar to those most inclined to worry about it. But[…]

“#MeToo arises from the failure of empowerment feminism”

23 February 201822 February 2018 Drew KaplanAmerica

Once told to be hotties (even judges wanted to be hotties!), girls were next told to empower themselves by being hot employees, as both the culture and corporations set aside long-standing concerns about sexual harassment[…]

“The brokenness of the country’s boys stands in contrast to its girls…”

22 February 201822 February 2018 Drew KaplanMasculinity

The brokenness of the country’s boys stands in contrast to its girls, who still face an abundance of obstacles, but go into the world increasingly well equipped to take them on. The past 50 years[…]

“Jewish comedy was influenced by social types portrayed by the mask in the commedia dell’arte”

22 February 2018 Drew KaplanPurim

We wish to confine ourselves to showing how the mask was related to “the play element”, to “comic gaiety”, as well as satire, during Purim, while recognizing that, in the Italian comedy, the mask represented[…]

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Excerpts of Interest

Month: February 2018

“The overpriced balloon of the Modern Orthodox experience rests on three core flaws”

“Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves…”

“#MeToo arises from the failure of empowerment feminism”

“The brokenness of the country’s boys stands in contrast to its girls…”

“Jewish comedy was influenced by social types portrayed by the mask in the commedia dell’arte”