“There’s more to life than whether you got this job or that fellowship”
It’s important for people to establish a sense of their own value beyond some...
Author Archives: Drew Kaplan
“The fetishized austerity and performative asceticism of minimalism is a kind of ongoing cultural sickness”
There’s an arrogance to today’s minimalism that presumes it provides an answer rather than,...
“The law of evidence that reigns in the domain of childhood is essentially medieval”
The law of evidence that reigns in the domain of childhood is essentially medieval....
“…Ozick, however fierce her identification as a Jew, is admirable in her freedom from identitarian parti pris”
Ozick the channeler of the literary past may seem remote from our present literary...
“The right-wing rhetoric around ‘P.C.’ has always made use of martial metaphors…with a sly wink”
The right-wing rhetoric around “P.C.” has always made use of martial metaphors — the...
“Gucci’s trademark is his flow: buoyant and melodic, with light comedic flourishes”
Perhaps no rapper has had more near-misses than Gucci Mane, now a decade and...
“Thanks to the deal, the Iranian nuclear program has been rolled back and is now at least a year away from obtaining a nuclear device”
A year ago, Iran had enough enriched uranium to build nine nuclear devices and...
“This deinstitutionalization of the faith has occurred alongside its politicization”
This deinstitutionalization of the faith has occurred alongside its politicization. It’s hard to believe...
“Students do not take well to ideological force-feeding…”
Of course, the Berkeley Hillel, like all Hillels, is not an island of groupthink...
“Victim blaming appears to be deep-seated, rooted in core moral values, but also somewhat malleable…”
Can anything be done to change people’s perceptions of victims and perpetrators? In another...