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The disinclination I feel about the digital future is stronger, more certain, but the fear grows from the same root. I see the situation in Faustian terms, as an either/or. To embrace the microchip and all its magic would be to close myself off from a great many habits and attitudes, ones that define me to myself; I would have to reposition myself
... See moreSven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
Alfred Kinsey’s study on human sexuality.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami (Published 2011)
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Alfred Dreyfus
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
Since ancient times, in every place they have ever lived, Jews have represented the frightening prospect of freedom. As long as Jews existed in any society, there was evidence that it in fact wasn’t necessary to believe what everyone else believed, that those who disagreed with their neighbors could survive and even flourish against all odds. The J
... See moreDara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Brenner, complex though he was, was perhaps the cultural icon of the Second Aliyah. His work, still considered brilliant, surfaced issues with which Israel continues to wrestle. He would have undoubtedly done even more than he managed in his brief life, but he was murdered by an Arab mob in the 1921 Jaffa riots.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
