“The image of black helicopters gained currency among antigovernment and militia enthusiasts in the mid-1990s”
A common weapon for bludgeoning a ‘‘crazy’’ is to insinuate paranoia by consigning them...
“Life in the 21st century revolves, more and more, around time-slicing…”
Life in the 21st century revolves, more and more, around time-slicing: switching quickly among...
“…whenever a “Force Awakens” tidbit has been divulged, the reaction has been like food sprinkled over a piranha tank”
Interest in “The Force Awakens” is already so extreme that Disney knows its safest...
“You also have to be able to relate to people, and not look down on them or talk down to them”
When you bring staff into a meeting and you talk to them about the...
“A funny thing happens when a brand becomes associated with a rock star in the public imagination”
A funny thing happens when a brand becomes associated with a rock star in...
“I’ve never heard of a woman who was distracted by a male rabbi’s sermon due to his being good-looking”
It’s no secret that men are more sexually attracted to women then vice versa....
“…if gender were nothing more than a social convention, why was it necessary for Caitlyn Jenner to undergo facial surgeries, take hormones and remove her body hair?”
The prevailing narrative seems to be that gender is a social construct and that...
“…it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will ‘lead to a schism within Orthodoxy…'”
…it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will “lead to a...
“As any prediction involves uncertainty and uncertainty is anathema to scientists, meteorology seems condemned to exist in a fraught intellectual space”
Today’s climate change debate has evolved much like the forecasting controversy of the 1860s....
“…when operating as an editor, a Tosafist seldom introduced new material into the text”
A great challenge facing those who sought to edit the integrated commentaries was the...