“It turns out that fantasy – the established domain of British children’s literature – is critical to childhood development”
It turns out that fantasy – the established domain of British children’s literature –...
“The most surprising thing about the nineteenth-century temperance movement is that it seems to have worked: in the course of the century, hard-liquor consumption plummeted”
The most surprising thing about the nineteenth-century temperance movement is that it seems to...
“Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. … They push our wonder buttons, but like all good stories, they are also fountains of potential interpretation”
Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. They own Star Wars,...
“What if an occupation arises, not from an act of aggression, but following a defensive war in which a state defending its territory occupies neighboring lands?”
Annexation has often been seen, quite naturally, as linked to aggression. Many international lawyers...
“For Rabbi Gordimer, all poskim share the same ‘process’. Not only is this historically incorrect, it isn’t even ‘doctrine'”
Rabbi Gordimer claims that there is no such thing as Modern Orthodox pesak, and...
“This rise of the individual comes, for better and for worse, with a weakening of large, centralized institutions”
Ongoing social, technological and political shifts should prompt us to embrace a culture of...
“…if there wasn’t an Open Orthodoxy to kick around, YU and Modern Orthodoxy would once again be the focus”
This obsession with the Open Orthodox reminds me of how in earlier centuries Christian...
“You may have been led to believe that Religion and Hollywood are at war. Don’t believe it”
You may have been led to believe that Religion and Hollywood are at war....
“…Gordimer seems not only unwilling to negotiate that balance…”
…object of Gordimer’s displeasure is the “Joy of Text” podcast, which discusses matters of...
“Writers and travellers alike do their best work when they don’t know what they’re looking for…”
Writers and travellers alike do their best work when they don’t know what they’re...