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An Apology for the German Socrates
Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity by Shmuel Feiner Yale University Press, 248 pages The intellectual life of Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)...
William Styron and a Discourse on Madness
Off the Shelf: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron Modern Library, 96 pages William Styron’s memoir Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness...
Leaving the Door Open: Participation and Contemporary Art
This past August, Gary Tinterow, Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spoke to ARTINFO’s magazine about his plans to...
Torah Rabba: The Possibility of an Orthodox Female Revolution
From the earliest accounts of Israelite civilization, women of the Jewish faith have filled numerous leadership roles. The history of female Jewish leadership can...
An Interview with Greg Wall
Rabbi Greg Wall became the spiritual leader of the Sixth Street Synagogue just a little over a year ago. Dubbed the “jazz rabbi” by a New York Times article...
A Paradise after the Fall?
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn The Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 337 pages There’s a tradition stretching back millennia of...
Tentative Abstraction: The Late Works of Monet
Nymphéas, 1914-1917, Oil on canvas In the latter half of the nineteenth century, a new movement captured the attention and ire of the French art scene. Named derisively...
Post-Postmodernism
The politico-aesthetic philosophy we know as “postmodernism,” a term often taken for granted in contemporary intellectual discourse, made its first appearance...
Conspiracies of Silence: Violence against Women in Israel and the Palestinian Authorities
“Whenever a woman refrains from performing any of the tasks that she is obligated to perform, she may be compelled to do so, even with a rod.” — Maimonides,...
House Beautiful
“The Power Chair is an attempt at making a functional chair even more functional.” One does not need to be at the vanguard of chair technology to wonder...