My Identity Crisis
The task of A Good Look at Evil is to make clear the shape of a good life and the role of evil in trying to destroy what is good in a life. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn Coll...
14 Sep 202412min
Philosophy
As a little girl, I would set the lunch table extra slowly so that I could overhear the philosophic conversations between my father, Henry M. Rosenthal, and Léo Bronstein, his closest friend. Understa...
5 Sep 202411min
Revisiting Country Gospel
Being born and raised a Jewish girl from Manhattan’s old-rent, upper east side, the last thing I’m expected to like is country gospel. Or so I’m often told. People shake their heads. Here comes the do...
29 Aug 20245min
I Dreamed I Saw Grandpa
Let me explain who and what he was, a little. He was tall, white-bearded when I knew him, and had the sad, seen-it-all-at-least-two-times-over Jewish eyes, as well as tremendous personal vibrancy and...
22 Aug 202410min
What's With The Nothing?
Well, I always write about what most concerns me, and beggars can’t be choosers, so – nothing for it – I’d better plunge headfirst into The Nothing. Hey, what does that feel like? Be the first kid o...
15 Aug 202413min
Before Feminism – and After!
Say what you will about the costs (and they were many and steep) women today are freer and happier than they were back then. You can see the change in the documentaries about feminism. The early com...
8 Aug 202415min
“Evil? What Do You Mean, ‘Evil’”?
Aside from my personal encounters with it, and study of some of the cases that made history, what do I know about it? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City Unive...
1 Aug 202411min
How I Got to be a Person Whose Whole Life is Lived in Cliches
The Rabbis inveigh against gossip. Since a lost reputation is almost as hard to recover as a lost life, they deem it equivalent to a capital crime. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Broo...
26 Jul 202411min
