Unhappiness
If you’re anything like me, unhappiness is doled out in measures of vulnerability. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. Sh...
21 Okt 202210min
Self-Acceptance
This is the season of deck-swabbing and deck-clearing, if you are Jewish. I tend to say that, at best, I am “Jewish in the head.” By that I mean: having tried a wide range of belief systems, I came at...
19 Okt 202210min
Being Brave
Nobody wants to think of herself as a whining, sniveling, cowering coward. At the same time, one of the advantages of the female sex is that (forgive me, sisterhood!) we are not expected to wear such ...
14 Okt 20229min
Mystical Merging
In my teen years, I used often to thumb through a book my parents owned — a collection of one-page essays about holy persons, East and West, who had managed to attain oneness with God. I forget the ...
12 Okt 202212min
Political Correctness and Sex Appeal
First, about this Political Correctness mania. It is starting to act like a cumulonimbus cloud, soaked in its own heavy humidity, making us land dwellers underneath feel sluggish and anxiety-ridden. ....
7 Okt 202211min
Close Friends
This is one I keep revisiting. But friendship is one of life’s prime supports – almost the axis on which the whole thing turns – so one post hardly exhausts the subject. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Profe...
5 Okt 202210min
How to Pick Your Fights
I pay great mind to words and the power of words. Therefore I have to care when words believed by the speaker to be true are spoken in honesty and then dishonestly stigmatized with a view to pushing t...
30 Sep 202214min
Wordliness
My father, the late Henry M. Rosenthal, was the antithesis of a worldly man. “He never made a useful friend,” as someone said who was well placed to know. Speaking at his memorial service, a college c...
28 Sep 202211min
