Uncategorized “Attributing negative motivations to your opponents is an unfair tactic that avoids discussing the real issues” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2016 Attributing negative motivations to your opponents is an unfair tactic that avoids discussing the...
Uncategorized “To consider a place largely from the perspective of a permanent anthropological past…is not simply to present an alternative truth: It is to indulge in fantasy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 May 2016 To consider a place largely from the perspective of a permanent anthropological past, to...
Uncategorized “…as the number of European travelers to Egypt increased in the 1500s and 1600s, the idea of granaries became increasingly insupportable in light of observation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 May 2016 In 1484, no less pious a fellow than a Catholic canon from Mainz, Bernhard...
Uncategorized “Western democracies desperately need to recapture basic values of citizenship, of shared participation in pursuit of the common good…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 March 2016 Western democracies desperately need to recapture basic values of citizenship, of shared participation in...
Uncategorized “…if we don’t offer common language with people with whom they deeply disagree as an ideal, we condemn ourselves to an even longer and bloodier war” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 February 2016 We have to fight to the end the deadly fanaticisms that threaten to destroy...
Uncategorized “…people driven by deep religious conviction will not be moved by arguments that do not reckon with their own commitments…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 February 2016 …people driven by deep religious conviction will not be moved by arguments that do...
Uncategorized “There are two roads to homogeneity. One is totalitarianism/Nimrodism…. The other is pluralism/ Canaanism….” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 January 2016 There are two roads to homogeneity. One is totalitarianism/Nimrodism, which gives absolute value to...
Uncategorized “Cities can’t win. When they do well, people resent them as citadels of inequality; when they do badly, they are cesspools of hopelessness” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 December 2015 Cities can’t win. When they do well, people resent them as citadels of inequality;...
Uncategorized “…the social crises that cities face are remarkably consistent, country to country and town to town” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 December 2015 …the social crises that cities face are remarkably consistent, country to country and town...
Uncategorized “What was the accepted Halacha in the Franco-German Jewish communities of the early Middle Ages [for waiting between meat and milk]?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 December 2015 What was the accepted Halacha in the Franco-German Jewish communities of the early Middle...