It’s Not Enough to be Intelligent
Fran, my therapeutic riding teacher, told me I have “a beautiful physique” on a horse and could qualify for the International competitions in “para-dressage” (dressage for the handicapped). People com...
24 Aug 20229min
Victims
The underdog has flipped the script and become — however briefly or protractedly — top dog. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University of New ...
19 Aug 202211min
Tenderness
Most of us feel that we can’t allow tenderness to visit us for more than a few moments at a time. After that, we let it translate into diatribe and counter-diatribe, or into that longing for transcend...
17 Aug 202213min
Beyond Recovery
I’ve been reading a book with the rather haunting title, Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust. The author, Yonassan Gershom, is a rabbi who is well versed in the kabbalistic, my...
12 Aug 202211min
Hyper-Idealism and Primitivity
Some will think I am kidding or being sarcastic, but it is a fact that I have the greatest sympathy for anti-Semites. I believe that there is something wrong with them. Even when they look normal, the...
10 Aug 202212min
Dante's Lovers
What is this power – of attraction without an object? Why does it seem almost more powerful than a nourishing reality? As if people are not seduced by a seducer – but by seduction itself, which cannot...
3 Aug 202211min
My Inner French Girl
Lately I’ve been reading a book with the charming title, Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl. The author, Debra Ollivier, was married to a Frenchman and lived there ten years....
29 Jul 202211min
Things in Their Right Places
A fair amount of living-and-learning may have that character, of things getting released to the habitats where they belong. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College o...
27 Jul 202210min
