"My bagel is Jewish." Despite Jews no longer selling the majority of bagels in NYC, the bagel remains overdetermined as a performance of diasporic authenticity, revealing the nostalgic hunger of post-ethnic urban subjects to consume an identity they never fully inhabited. In this essay, I will...
"How do you do, fellow leftists?" www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Oppressor vs. oppressed, that is. Though “oppressed vs. oppressed” also happens in history quite often, which is part of the issue.
One of the major points I try to make in teaching Jewish history is that oppressed vs. oppressed is *not* a binary, but a complicated series of interrelationships that is deeply contextual, and that the same groups can fall into multiple categories, sometimes at the same time.
“The belief that every field in the humanities is secretly controlled by social justice warriors has always been a false conspiracy theory, but to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion.”
These are pogroms against minority communities. And the world's wealthiest man is actively stoking them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
“He would sing his song every single morning... When asked why he sang all the time, he replied that he had only two choices: 'Sing all the time, or cry and die. He preferred to sing.'” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The family of Olga R almost threw out the collection of 20 songs written by concentration camp prisoners after her death, before discovering its incredible history
My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
There is virtually no evidence offered in the report for its sweeping conclusions about the entirety of the humanities.
