“Regulating Wall Street is an Old Testament sort of affair: Like Leviticus, it is all about the persnickety details”
Regulating Wall Street is an Old Testament sort of affair: Like Leviticus, it is...
Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“Talmud…means ‘study’…, but also ‘instruction, teaching’…”
Talmud (from lamad, ‘to learn’, or limmad, ‘to teach’) means ‘study’ (a theoretical activity,...
“Publishing used to require access to a printing press and, as a result, the act of publishing something was limited to a tiny fraction of the population…”
Publishing used to require access to a printing press and, as a result, the...
“When one’s picture of the past is based on a single set of texts, the encounter with a new source of information is likely to provoke much reflection and revision…”
When one’s picture of the past is based on a single set of texts,...
“Of all the great love lyrics, Shakespeare’s sonnets are the most relentlessly mysterious and even mystical in expression…”
…is love just the sentimentalist’s word for sex? This is what makes the fascination...
“…the shine has come off this hardy, once-helpful word” (privilege)
…the shine has come off this hardy, once-helpful word. It looks a little worn,...
“Digital means of distributing words and images have robbed newspapers of the coherence they formerly had…”
Digital means of distributing words and images have robbed newspapers of the coherence they...
“The bespectacled face asks the world to see it a certain way by telling the world something about how it is seen”
More intimate than underpants precisely because they are plain for all to see, eyeglasses...
“The dual nature of Rabbinic tales is thus paradoxical – so removed from history on the one hand, yet capable of meaningful comparison with other sources on the other”
The dual nature of Rabbinic tales is thus paradoxical – so removed from history...
“It would not be quite right to say that Magna Carta has withstood the ravages of time”
It would not be quite right to say that Magna Carta has withstood the...