Jewish “The tradition of blessing a person to live to 120 years, as a way of wishing someone long life, only began in the last few hundred years” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 August 2020 The tradition of blessing a person to live to 120 years, as a way...
America, Politics in America, Races in America “Had observers better grasped white anxieties unleashed by the growth of America’s nonwhite population and the two-term Presidency of Barack Obama, Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 would have come as no surprise” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 August 2020 Twenty years after Myrdal published his report, and five years after King travelled to...
Police in America “The crisis in policing is the culmination of a thousand other failures—failures of education, social services, public health, gun regulation, criminal justice, and economic development” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 August 2020 The crisis in policing is the culmination of a thousand other failures—failures of education,...
Police in America “Today’s police officers are disproportionately veterans of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many suffering from post-traumatic stress” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 August 2020 Today’s police officers are disproportionately veterans of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many...
Police in America “Modern American policing began in 1909, when August Vollmer became the chief of the police department in Berkeley, California. Vollmer refashioned American police into an American military” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 August 2020 Modern American policing began in 1909, when August Vollmer became the chief of the...
America, Police in America “Two kinds of police appeared on mid-century American television” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 August 2020 Two kinds of police appeared on mid-century American television. The good guys solved crime...
Technology “Facebook, Palantir, Cambridge Analytica, Amazon, the Internet Research Agency, Google: these are, every one, the children of Simulmatics” – Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 Simulmatics is a relic of its time, an artifact of the Eisenhower-Kennedy-Nixon Cold War;...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud “A number of Rava’s rulings require intention as a necessary condition for establishing liability for both civil and ritual violations” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 Where early generations of Babylonian Amoraim employed a system of strict liability in deciding...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud “The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic jurisprudence and legal conceptualization” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic...