Drake “mines his past, not as a reason to change but as rationalization for his worst behavior”
Starting with the ornate melancholia of “Take Care,” from 2011, Drake elevated the unfurling...
“A debate over the naming rights for the broader categorization of flavorful beer has raged since the new wave of post-light lager emerged in the early 1980s”
A debate over the naming rights for the broader categorization of flavorful beer has...
“If you want to understand why ‘Netflix and chill’ has replaced dinner and a movie, you need to look at how people work”
If you want to understand why “Netflix and chill” has replaced dinner and a...
“But how can you be a light if almost no one can see you?”
…Orthodox answer is “to keep the commandments.” That suffices, we are reassured, because when...
“Craft has become a meaningless phrase to which we assign arbitrary, shifting and often no longer relevant characteristics…”
If some viewed microbrew as an outmoded label, few agreed on the proper replacement...
“Dating itself is a recent invention. It developed when young people began moving to cities and women began working outside private homes”
Dating itself is a recent invention. It developed when young people began moving to...
“Some of the draw of Donald Trump for white working-class male voters, for example, is that he does not speak in a culture of critical discourse”
It is probably right that something like a culture of critical discourse can be...
“The vogue for ‘smart’ traces at least as far back as the ‘smart bomb,’ precision-guided munitions made to be more accurate than the dumb bombs of wars past…”
The vogue for “smart” traces at least as far back as the “smart bomb,”...
“A new infusion of an invigorated Modern Orthodoxy that meets the best intellectual, moral and spiritual standards of postmodern culture is a critical ingredient for the strengthening of the center of affiliated Jewry”
Modern Orthodox professionals have played a key role in the revitalization of American Jewry...
“One way or another, science really happens”
There has been much talk in the pop-sci world of “memes”—ideas that somehow manage...