Harvey Blume
“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”
This is a film for another moment in time, an imaginary if not necessarily utopian moment when being Jewish is less roiled and bedeviled from within and without.
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it’s not journalism.
Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.
“I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer.”
Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?
Shtisel offers a humane glimpse into the lives of people who would normally be shrouded from me by all sorts of religious and political barriers.
Police Violence Commentary: Another NYPD Murder — Two Decades Ago
To be killed — as in murdered — by police you don’t necessarily have to be a person of color.
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