“Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything”
These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to...
“Online Jewish communities…provide…types of symbols and language…that help reinforce communal identity and unity”
Anderson explains the use of language and symbols that help reinforce communal identity and...
“Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the tools used in beer production…are often linked to bread-making…”
Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the...
“Owning someone sets you up to be owned yourself, sometimes in the same breath”
The most successful ownage finds hubristic targets, people who think they know more than...
“Leaks are most often an outsider’s tool, and they look different from a vantage of power”
Leaks are most often an outsider’s tool, and they look different from a vantage...
“You do not hear ‘win-win’ much lately”
You do not hear “win-win” much lately. One of the loudest political messages of...
“Zionism leverages the bravery of the Hasmoneans, but tries to get us to forget the corruption and decline of their ruling class once empowered…”
Zionism — and, here, I mean especially the muscular Zionism of the Six-Day War,...
“‘Silencing critics’ is the beating heart of today’s ‘winning'”
“Silencing critics” is the beating heart of today’s “winning.” This is largely because your...
“As a candidate, Trump told his followers that he would fulfill ‘every dream you ever dreamed for your country.’ But he is a plutocrat. His loyalty is to the interests of the plutocracy”
Trump may operate a twenty-first-century Twitter machine, but he is still a frontier-era drummer...
“White nationalists in the United States perceive the country as having plunged into unending crisis…”
Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively...