Jewish Time
Lately, I’ve had a growing sense of living my life on something I call “Jewish Time.” Have I anything concrete in view? Read this episode on my blog HERE Confessions of a Young Philosopher Availa...
13 Feb 20259min
The Big City and Me
It is the town where my mother captured the Nazi spy ring being run out of the basement of the walkup apartment on 86th and Park where our family lived during the War years. My mother wondered why ou...
6 Feb 202512min
I Was Politically Correct for 15 Minutes
It happened like this. I was remembering a case I know of, where a young woman, who had her whole life before her, was being forced into the sealed back of a truck. Uniformed Nazis were turning a ho...
30 Jan 202513min
Feminism without Contradictions
Even to suggest that feminism’s theoretical foundations need reworking might seem a tad risky. Well, gee, that’s tough. As I sometimes said when I taught Philosophic Foundations of Feminism: “If I wan...
23 Jan 202514min
Economic Life
So what’s it all about, economic life? People will kill and die for their economic theories, but the theories never quite square with the way things are – behind the theorizing. Abigail L. Rosentha...
16 Jan 202511min
The Horse Knows
Facebook had an advertisement for something called Equine Gestalt Coaching Method. I consider horses to be good for you, with or without the “Gestalt” part. But I hadn’t found any safe way of being ar...
9 Jan 202510min
What About the Jews?
When you think of it, the anti-semite’s belief pays a sort of inverted tribute to the claim God makes for the descendants of Father Abraham: In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. It’...
2 Jan 20259min
Competitive Friendships
I have just been reading the youthful correspondence between my future father, Henry M. Rosenthal, and his best friend in college and for some years thereafter, Lionel Trilling. Trilling went on to m...
27 Des 202411min
