White mob violence against black people and their homes and businesses was the far more common variety of race riot, from the first rising of the K.K.K., after the Civil War, through the second, in[…]
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Author: Drew Kaplan
“I, like many who enjoy an adult beverage then and again, have to ask myself fairly regularly about my relationship with it. Is it healthy? Is it proper?”
I, like many who enjoy an adult beverage then and again, have to ask myself fairly regularly about my relationship with it. Is it healthy? Is it proper? Some people use alcohol as an escape,[…]
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“when you see someone who appears to be a disciplined person what you’re really seeing is a person who has actually just acquired a few very key disciplines in a specific area”
There is no such thing as a disciplined person and, even if there were, why would you want to be one? The concept of a disciplined person is a myth. No one is disciplined in[…]
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“A true professional knows what they know, knows what they don’t know, and knows the difference between the two”
Most difficulties in real estate transactions (from simple misunderstandings all the way to costly lawsuits) come from agents who think they know it all. They erroneously believe that the customer expects them to have all[…]
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“The second principle of lead generation messaging is your message must make an offer to get a response”
The second principle of lead generation messaging is your message must make an offer to get a response. When you create messages for buyers or sellers you must determine what kind of offers you will[…]
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“Messaging is built on the proven idea that people will contact you if there is some direct benefit to them”
Messaging is built on the proven idea that people will contact you if there is some direct benefit to them. The opportunity to get something they want or need drives their contact. Promoting your personal[…]
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“You can’t open a book about coffee, no matter what tone it takes, without reading a global story”
You can’t open a book about coffee, no matter what tone it takes, without reading a global story. Whatever else the current crisis may be teaching us, the one certain thing is that self-sufficiency is[…]
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“When you’re a member of the very society you’re reporting on, every word is laden with responsibility. Personal and professional are always mixed”
In my eight years as an Orthodox journalist writing mainly about Orthodox life for non-Orthodox publications, I have lived this every day. When you’re a member of the very society you’re reporting on, every word[…]
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“The only observation that feels true is that ‘Tiger King’ is what we watched two weeks into our isolation”
“Tiger King” is prestige trash: narratively ambitious but self-aware. True crime is far from journalism. (Exotic’s history was more thoroughly investigated in a New York magazine story by Robert Moor.) In the series’ final episode,[…]
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Chailkin and Goode are less interested in getting to the truth of the matter than in revelling in their subjects’ chintzy vanity projects: Baskin’s YouTube channel (“Hey, all you cool cats and kittens”), Doc Antle’s[…]
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