Persecution and the Art of Writing
Why should truth-seekers hide their findings? It sounded like a Conspiracy Theory without conspirators, a drama without Dramatis Personae, a tempest in an émigré philosopher’s teapot. Abigail L. Ro...
7 Marras 20248min
Walking Into The Fire: The Politically Incorrect Phyllis Chesler
Do men and women now treat each other better than they once did? The feminist revolution peeled off the conventions that used to govern relations between the sexes. Yet man-woman relations seem never ...
31 Loka 202412min
Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites
Nudnik: “A nudnik is not just a nuisance; to merit the status of nudnik, a nuisance must be the most persistent, talkative, obnoxious, indomitable, and indefatigable nag.” The Joys of Yiddish, by Leo...
24 Loka 202416min
Homage To Milbridge
There people know you in the round. If you want to do something you don’t want the whole town to know, don’t do it in Milbridge. By the same token, if you want to make up a damaging story about some...
17 Loka 202412min
Wingeing, Death and Debility
What’s the best way to live? What’s the best way to die? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Y...
11 Loka 202411min
Paradigm Shifts
We live under the sheltering umbrellas of our worldviews. To the point where we would feel naked if we were caught in the street without them. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn...
4 Loka 202411min
Shunning
We are social beings, so nobody likes to be shunned. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Confessions of A Young P...
26 Syys 202412min
Sacrificial Acts
It’s occurred to me that, several times in the past, I succeeded better at an effort when I didn’t do it for me. I don’t mean that I got “ego” out of the way, whatever that means. What’s ego? What...
20 Syys 202411min
