“…the core of Trump’s phenomenon is his celebrity itself, which, in today’s America, is in fact as populist as it gets”
…while populism is often associated with grass-roots movements, Trump’s brand of it flows not...
“For a generation that spends more and more of its time virtually, food is tangible, immediate and gratifying”
Last spring I taught a course at USC Annenberg School of Journalism called “Food,...
“Why do we rewrite the rules, effectively disempowering women to protect themselves from the risks of their own behavior?”
“Reframing the Victim” struck on what seems to be a strangely flawed feminist logic...
“One reason it is difficult to track funding to the BDS campaign is that there is no central coordinating organization”
One reason it is difficult to track funding to the BDS campaign is that...
“Any psychologist will tell you that an addiction to victimhood is a roadmap to failure. Palestinian leaders are the drug dealers of victimhood”
Arab-Muslim culture tends to value honor and justice more than action and progress. Because...
“Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the country, you might still, if you look hard enough, detect tendrils of Southern influence that extend past the Mason-Dixon Line”
Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the...
“…within Mishna Torah, there may be Talmudic laws which have been redefined or reformulated for anti-Qaraite reasons”
Professor Haym Soloveitchik has argued convincingly that the unique arrangement of Hilchos Shabbos in...
“An earplug habit allows a weird sort of synesthesia, where auditory experiences are reconfigured into other, subtler inputs”
An earplug habit allows a weird sort of synesthesia, where auditory experiences are reconfigured...
“The civil-rights revolution, too, can be thought of as a bargain, not simply a victory: the nation has become Southernized just as much as the South has become nationalized”
The South was the country’s aberrant region—wayward, backward, benighted—but it was at last going...
“Scholars have noted that many minhagim began as a response to the Qaraite movement”
Scholars have noted that many minhagim began as a response to the Qaraite movement....