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Jacob never knew how to answer the question “Are you religious?” He’d never not belonged to a synagogue, never not made some gesture toward kashruth, never not assumed—not even in his moments of greatest frustration with Israel, or his father, or American Jewry, or God’s absence—that he would raise his children with some degree of Jewish literacy a

Jonathan Safran Foer • Here I Am: A Novel

intellectuals”—the problem of how to reconcile “Japanese blood and Western intellect.”1

Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan

We must also include in our clinical theories the psychological misery occasioned by actual and often ongoing experiences of social oppression. In part, such socialized misery may be internalized and perpetuated by an individual’s use of mechanisms such as identification with the aggressor, dissociation, denial, and projective identification, which... See more

Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...

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Ryan and other epidemiologists wanted Western countries to follow the approach that Harvard biostatistician Xihong Lin had suggested in his March 12 briefing—aggressively isolate infected people, as China had done. “Centralized quarantine worked!” Lin had proclaimed. “Infected patients, suspected cases and close contacts were less likely to infect

Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

with such a choice? How exactly does a confused young man go about dealing with such a decision about how to act? Who can help him, and how? Sartre approached this last part by looking at the question of who could not help him.

Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

Hans Asperger, after whom it was named, was a Nazi collaborator. He sentenced most people he identified as autistic to death or institutionalization, selecting only certain specific types of autistic people—those who presented with what would later be called Asperger’s—as worth saving, as “real” citizens, because

Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)

Powerless, stateless and often living under conditions of great poverty, Jews throughout the centuries of their dispersion created a communal equivalent of a welfare state. They did so voluntarily, because it was a mitzvah (religious deed), because it is what Jews do, and because they knew that no one else would do it for them.