Business, Entertainment, Internet, Social Media “Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2018 The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define,...
America, Femininity “#MeToo arises from the failure of empowerment feminism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 February 2018 Once told to be hotties (even judges wanted to be hotties!), girls were next...
Masculinity “The brokenness of the country’s boys stands in contrast to its girls…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 February 2018 The brokenness of the country’s boys stands in contrast to its girls, who still...
Purim “Jewish comedy was influenced by social types portrayed by the mask in the commedia dell’arte” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 February 2018 We wish to confine ourselves to showing how the mask was related to “the...
Beer, Business “What are the lessons of craft beer’s triumph for the rest of the economy?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2018 …what are the lessons of craft beer’s triumph for the rest of the economy?...
Beer “What explains the nature of the craft-beer boom?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2018 …what explains the nature of the craft-beer boom? From several interviews with economists and...
Politics in America “we have here a ‘Baptists and bootleggers’ situation, in which liberals and conservatives combine to create a moral situation much worse than either’s policies could independently create” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 January 2018 Mr. Sholom Rubashkin was recently released from prison. There are compelling arguments that his...
England, Israel, Middle East, War, World War I “There was a more immediate motive for the timing of the Balfour Declaration” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 November 2017 There was a more immediate motive for the timing of the Declaration. U.S. President...
Israel, University “…just because an activist group says dumb and misguided things about Jews and Israel, that doesn’t mean the campus in question is “hostile” or “uncomfortable” for Jews” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 November 2017 …just because an activist group says dumb and misguided things about Jews and Israel,...
America, Money “Our ideas about egalitarianism make even the beneficiaries of inequality uncomfortable with it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 November 2017 Our ideas about egalitarianism make even the beneficiaries of inequality uncomfortable with it. And...