Gender, Politics in America “Likability is associated with an emotional connection between candidate and voter that makes a politician worthy of trust” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 May 2019 Likability seems to have emerged as an important personality trait in the late 19th...
America Anti-vaxxers are “emblematic of too many people’s willful disregard of evidence, proud suspicion of expertise and estrangement from reason” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 May 2019 …the anti-vaccine crowd (or anti-vaxxers) aren’t trafficking in anything as concrete, mundane and quaint...
America, Politics in America “Spreading conspiracy theories once had a price — printing or even mimeographing a tract costs money — but now…, anyone can post a madcap theory or a doctored photograph virtually for free” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 April 2019 Democracies depend on buy-in; citizens need to believe in certain basics, starting with the...
Gender, Jobs/Professions, Work “In the early days of coding, women flocked to programming because it offered more opportunity and reward for merit, more than fields like law. Now software has the closed door.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 April 2019 If biology limited women’s ability to code, then the ratio of women to men...
Incarceration “American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder cases” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 April 2019 American cultural history could probably be parcelled out as a sequence of sensational murder...
Modern Orthodoxy, University “as the culture of the mid-twentieth century was replaced…, the notion of students grappling with their yeshiva and college educations…, producing a grand synthesis called ‘Modern Orthodoxy’, seemed increasingly quaint” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 April 2019 Yeshiva College has also changed along with the broader landscape of higher education. We...
Israel, Politics in Israel Bibi “has no true ideological home, so he has made his home the Prime Minister’s Office” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 April 2019 It’s a mistake to put Netanyahu in the same category as the strongmen riding...
YouTube “…some magical place where a total lack of any discernible talent or intelligence or interpersonal skills had never interfered with anyone’s success” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 April 2019 When it finally sunk in that I’m not the next Nabokov, I got pretty...
Jewish Community “I don’t see an end in sight to the massive private foundations dominating the Jewish philanthropic landscape, but there are definitely better ways forward” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2019 …what has to change in the world of Jewish philanthropy and fundraising to make...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “Birthright Israel manifests the interlacing power of identity and endowment in American Jewish life” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2019 Birthright Israel, the nonprofit organization that Steinhardt started in 1999 with his billionaire friend...