America “We Americans are reluctant to acknowledge that our economy serves the educated classes and penalizes the rest” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 March 2020 When it comes to people whose lives aren’t going well, American culture is a...
Politics in America “…there are ultimately four characteristics in candidates that I think drive our perceptions and our decisions…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 March 2020 I think there are ultimately four characteristics in candidates that I think drive our...
Politics “we would often be better off worrying about what the appendages in legislatures and localities are doing than about what some ultimate head is thinking” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 March 2020 This idea of power simply emanating downward still animates apologetics for authoritarianism, but it...
Europe, Politics in America “…liberalism has, to an unusual degree, been defined by what it wasn’t” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 March 2020 …liberalism has, to an unusual degree, been defined by what it wasn’t. For French...
Mishnah, Tannaitic Literature “The term ma’aseh is the intrusion of real life events into the largely theoretical in hypothetical discourse of the Mishnah” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 February 2020 The term ma’aseh is the intrusion of real life events into the largely theoretical...
Babylonian Talmud, Haredim/Haredi-ism, Jewish Community The Siyum HaShas “Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2020 The Event Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli. I kind of...
Jewish Community, Jews in America “So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp outdoors in the winter” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 January 2020 So much of contemporary North American Jewish life is like running a heat lamp...
Halakhah, Jewish, Politics in America “When you vote, you hopefully evaluate the full gamut of issues and discover that on some issues one party’s views are more in accordance with Torah and on others it is the other party’s, and often neither are” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 December 2019 I understand that we have both College Democrats and College Republicans chapters on our...
Politics in America “…impeachment had all but vanished from English practice when American delegates to the Constitutional Convention provided for it…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 November 2019 Impeachment is an ancient relic, a rusty legal instrument and political weapon first wielded...
Holidays, Sukkot Considering the paradoxes of Sukkot Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 October 2019 I love the paradoxes of Sukkot: a holiday with profound universalistic theological overtones that...