Harvey Blume
“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThe blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it’s not journalism.
Read MoreSome pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
Read MoreLiterary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.
Read More“I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer.”
Read MoreIs it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?
Read MoreShtisel offers a humane glimpse into the lives of people who would normally be shrouded from me by all sorts of religious and political barriers.
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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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