March 6, 2020
Category: Identity
June 24, 2019
What’s it like being Jewish in North Dakota? My testimony.
I recently testified via telephone before the North Dakota Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. I was one of six people to speak before the committee. It was a disaster. I and other speakers were disregarded and attacked. I realize now that my and others’ testimonies are too important to be limited to just the committee members. So, I am publishing my remarks here, for everyone to read.
August 24, 2017
Why Did Homo Sapiens Evolve Into Artists?
There is nothing more natural than the connection between early human beings and the people whom we call our friends and family.
January 12, 2017
Can we escape the Christian imagination?
We can pretend Christmas is secular because we are so used to the Christian way of thinking, that we have a hard time imagining life can be otherwise.
December 11, 2016
How can we think philosophically about disability?
The vast majority of conversations people have about disability concern our personal reactions to disability rather than engaging with the disabled themselves.
November 28, 2016
A reporter wrote an article about me and got an antisemitic email in response.
America is at a crossroad right now. Do we go down the road of passive acceptance and fear, or do we go down the road of truth, mutual respect, and fighting for what’s right?
November 21, 2016
Molli Bernstein died this weekend: death in the age of Facebook.
The internet keeps so many people at such a distance that it is hard to know when it is proper to try to make that divide smaller.
November 7, 2016
My Final Statement on Donald Trump
If you vote for Donald Trump, we can’t be friends.
September 11, 2016
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