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07/09/2022 - 11:39

Wham, like the protests he’s become known for, is quiet and animated by a kind of contained mischief. Born and raised in Singapore, he has... →

27/08/2022 - 14:17

Such a belief, sometimes driven by antisemitism and sometimes by a general feeling of literary displacement and career frustration, was... →

20/08/2022 - 13:31

Nudges aim to influence people to make better decisions. For example, authorities may set a “better” choice, such as donating... →

10/08/2022 - 13:05

Dangling from each silhouetted disc, the sailor insisted, were German soldiers dressed, not in Nazi uniforms, but skirts and blouses. Each... →

31/07/2022 - 15:02

When half a million people completed an online questionnaire in 2018 the participants who were in their 20s and 30s said on... →

23/07/2022 - 13:43

Much of the news media addressed the Jersey City slaughter from a blame-the-victims angle. Dara Horn, in her new book, People Love... →

14/07/2022 - 14:39

Reader: I could not put it down. I still chose to read it slowly, to savor it, take it all in. I must have underlined at least a quarter of... →

09/07/2022 - 13:48

At their destination – a recently planted forest – the people sat or crouched on a slope dotted with spruce trees. Each tree was still... →

03/07/2022 - 17:37

The privilege of issuing money is synonymous with economic power. So it should come as little surprise that history is replete with... →

28/06/2022 - 13:53

All the worst things we can imagine doing to Earth — nuclear war, climate change, massive pollution, habitat loss and all the rest —... →

20/06/2022 - 12:34

Lasker provides a basic introduction to Karaite history and the sect’s fundamental differences from Rabbinic Judaism, as well as their... →

15/06/2022 - 11:17

In The Sabbath (1951), Rabbi Abraham Heschel argued that, in Judaism, this day of rest was more than just a pause in the week, it... →

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