“A post-identity liberal press would begin educating itself about parts of the country that have been ignored, and about what matters there, especially religion”
We need a post-identity liberalism, and it should draw from the past successes of...
Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“Imprisoning people is one of the weightiest things that government does, yet outsourcing imprisonment means that treatment of inmates is shaped by bottom-line considerations”
Imprisoning people is one of the weightiest things that government does, yet outsourcing imprisonment...
“Emotional input is the reason why mature people go to a human being for psaq halakhah and not a computer”
There is a beautiful narrative in Ketubot 23a where Shmuel considered declaring a group...
“The uneasy way we discuss ghettos and gentrification says something about our discomfort with the real-estate market…”
The uneasy way we discuss ghettos and gentrification says something about our discomfort with...
“The claim of anti-Semitism is particularly non-credible to Trump’s supporters”
The claim of anti-Semitism is particularly non-credible to Trump’s supporters. Not to the deplorables,...
“The ’90s was the decade…in which conspiracism…became a form of kitschy entertainment”
The ’90s was the decade of Oliver Stone’s “J.F.K.,” “The X-Files” and late-night Roswell...
“…there is no such concept [of “falling in love”] in the haredi world”
…there is no such concept in the haredi world (and...
“The rift between centrist and open Orthodoxy is…about the nature of gadolhood and the structure of rabbinic authority…”
The rift between centrist and open Orthodoxy, is thus not only about who is...
Passages Claimed to Be in the Zohar, But Not There
In my article, I referred to passages in the Zohar which traditional authorities had...
“By denying the possibility of goodwill or good intentions, in a manner impossible to falsify, imputation of motives offends, obstructs, and obscures”
An important note: there is a fundamental asymmetry here between the right and the...