Marketing “Messaging is built on the proven idea that people will contact you if there is some direct benefit to them” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 June 2020 Messaging is built on the proven idea that people will contact you if there...
Coffee “You can’t open a book about coffee, no matter what tone it takes, without reading a global story” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 June 2020 You can’t open a book about coffee, no matter what tone it takes, without...
Journalism, Orthodoxy “When you’re a member of the very society you’re reporting on, every word is laden with responsibility. Personal and professional are always mixed” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 May 2020 In my eight years as an Orthodox journalist writing mainly about Orthodox life for...
Movies “The only observation that feels true is that ‘Tiger King’ is what we watched two weeks into our isolation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 April 2020 “Tiger King” is prestige trash: narratively ambitious but self-aware. True crime is far from...
Movies View Post Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 April 2020 Chailkin and Goode are less interested in getting to the truth of the matter...
Movies Tiger King’s “choice of inspirational comparison – a mockumentary – is telling” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 April 2020 As Goode recently told Rolling Stone, “What fascinated Rebecca and I was the ‘Best...
Books “The plague novel is the place where all human beings abandon all other human beings” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2020 The structure of the modern plague novel, all the way to Stephen King’s “The...
Books “the existence of books, no matter how grim the tale, is itself a sign, evidence that humanity endures, in the very contagion of reading” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 April 2020 In the long centuries during which the plague ravaged Europe, the quarantined, if they...
Babylonian Talmud “the Talmud only makes sense to the reader who has already read it; a first reading of the Talmud only happens during its second reading” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 April 2020 The Talmud is not a book to be read, but a book to do...
America “the economy and the structure of work are not the way they used to be. This has had devastating effects on the family and on community life” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 March 2020 For the first few decades after the Second World War, per-capita U.S. economic growth...