Justice Denied author Marci Hamilton just sent me a couple of stories of interest in the recent cases involving abused children in the Orthodox Jewish communities of Brooklyn. Channel 11 news did a powerful...
So far in these posts we have looked at testable quantum gravity effects, but I have not said much about the ultimate theory of quantum gravity itself. There is a simple reason: I do not think we have...
Columnists have approached last week’s deadly Mumbai terrorist attacks from many angles, as William Kristol points out in his New York Times column today. Are we dealing with the a repressed minoritystriking...
The New York Times today has an article that speaks volumes about the publishing industry, especially to those who don’t realize how hectic it can be. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has stopped accepting...
In an Op-Ed in this morning’s New York Daily News, Justice Denied author Marci Hamilton decries another situation in which sexual abusers are shielded from public scrutiny. It’s a familiar...
Busted: Catherine de’Medici’s Italian Chefs Taught the French How to Cook According to legend, the turning point in the development of French gastronomy was 1533, when Catherine de’ Medici, daughter...
First off, newly syndicated readers who want to have access to my previous posts can find them archived here as well as listed on my own site here. After last week’s speculations on time I would...
A Revolution in Taste was profiled in The New Yorker just the other day! Pinkard reveals that before the storming of the Bastille a revolution took place at dinner tables all over France, when ornate,...
With the Martin Gardner books available, I’ve been throwing the word hexaflexagon around a lot. It’s part of the title, after all. For anyone who hasn’t ever seen one, they’re cool....
Is the concept of patriarchy still a useful one? Or has it lost its meaning through years of feminist criticism and criticism of feminism? In the latest issue of Bookforum, Feministing blogger and American...
If you're like me, you love beets. They're all over restaurant menus lately, which is great. Though delicious and simply done, I find ordering them underwhelming. After all -- they're really easy to make at home, and they keep for ages. I've gotten my wife eating them, and probably do so 2 or 3 times a week. Here, Susan Pinkard, trolling through historical French recipes, has excavated a recipe for a Good Friday dish (totally vegetarian). It's unlike my usual beet routine, so I'm going to give it a whirl. How could one go wrong with 2 sticks of butter?
Future Imperfect author David Friedman recently spoke at the Cato Institute in DC. Slate’s William Saletan attended, and he seemed to have enjoyed himself. Anyone who’s watched Friedman lecture...