Beer “What is dubbed craft brewed beer attracts consumers with far greater clarity of language, structure, and understanding of beer culture” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 November 2015 While Bourdieu spoke of taste in much broader cultural terms, we can use his...
University “Despite the communal money being thrown at the BDS problem…, little is known about how the movement gets its domestic funding” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 November 2015 Despite the communal money being thrown at the BDS problem, and despite the headlines...
Star Wars “It’s laughable to suggest that any reveal of a Darth Jar Jar twist could have been met with applause rather than derision” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 November 2015 It’s laughable to suggest that any reveal of a Darth Jar Jar twist could...
Halakhah “While some earlier rishonim required waiting between eating beheima meat and eating dairy, Rambam was the first to state that one must wait after eating poultry, as well” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 November 2015 While some earlier rishonim required waiting between eating beheima meat and eating dairy, Rambam...
Politics in America “The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous dilemma for a lot of other people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 November 2015 The Trump campaign may be a win-win for Trump, but it is a monstrous...
Reform Judaism “Today, half of all married Reform Jews have non-Jewish spouses, and 80 percent of those who married between 2000 and 2013 wed non-Jewish spouses” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 November 2015 Today, half of all married Reform Jews have non-Jewish spouses, and 80 percent of...
Marriage, Marriage, Modern Orthodoxy “Continuity is not an end in itself, but a culture’s purpose is not to be an ephemeral work of performance art” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 November 2015 Marriage in the classical sense is a commitment to sustainability. Continuity is not an...
Uncategorized “Cities change. It is their nature.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 November 2015 Cities change. It is their nature. Those which stop changing stop being cities. Cities...
Journalism “Journalistic interviews in the United States increasingly began to appear in the 1860s” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 November 2015 Journalistic interviews in the United States increasingly began to appear in the 1860s. Before...
Culture “…many things…fall in and out of fashion for reasons that have more to do with fashion than with reason” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 November 2015 Surely many things, including bikes, fall in and out of fashion for reasons that...