Damn you, Zionists: Tenenbom’s Mea Shearim Adventures

From Scrolls to Memory: How Early Rabbis “Read” the Bible

Everything we know about IQ and Intelligence

The previous book by Stuart Ritchie that I read was fantastic and impactful…

Potato: an anarchist vegetable

“Potato” is a book in the Object Lessons series which “take ordinary — even banal — objects and animate…

How the world’s most important industry ended up on a single island: Part I

Unyielding Yiddish: Past, Present, and Beyond

Adventures in Yiddishland by Jeffrey Shandler

How the world’s most important industry ended up on a single island: Part II

Holy Biddy, Great Expectations

I saw Dickens’s Great Expectations saying that obsessively chasing education and class will not lead to…

Gemeinschaft in the net: a study of open source software and online communities

The Tragedy of The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, first published in 1939, is certainly a book worth of note…