“The irony of…should be a warning against assuming any kind of simple binary division between resistance and imitation of colonial cultures”
The irony of finding a deeply Hellenized concept of gender at the very heart...
Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“To contrast history writing and storytelling as polar opposites is thus to distort the nature of both types of literature”
Fraenkel’s approach would seem to create an unbridgeable chasm between historical writing and other...
“A better idea is to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace him with a distinguished woman from American history”
Treasury is proposing to put a woman’s portrait alongside Hamilton’s on the $10 bill,...
“This is a strange moment for sex in America. We’ve detached it from pregnancy, matrimony and, in some circles, romance”
This is a strange moment for sex in America. We’ve detached it from pregnancy,...
“The useful part of white identity’s vagueness is that whites don’t have to shoulder the burden of race in America”
By the early 20th century, the descendants of the earlier Irish immigrants had successfully...
“A saris is simply a sterile man (just like an aylonit is a sterile woman)…”
There is nothing to indicate that the rabbis saw saris as effeminate or not...
“Leaders can use simple rules to win the hearts and minds of their people — with huge returns”
Civility elicits perceptions of warmth and competence. Susan T. Fiske, a professor at Princeton,...
“When a law has a name like ‘Patriot’ or ‘Freedom’, it’s a sign that you should read the fine print”
When a law has a name like “Patriot” or “Freedom,” it’s a sign that...
“It’s one thing to teach college students to talk frankly about sex and not to have it without demonstrable pre-coital assent”
It’s one thing to teach college students to talk frankly about sex and not...
“’Pics or it didn’t happen’ gained traction because in an age of bountiful technology, when everyone is armed with a camera, there is no excuse for not having evidence”
It’s a glib reply to a comrade’s boasting — coming out of Internet gaming...