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  • Silenced No More March 13, 2024
    Claiming you are being silenced in a society as free as ours devalues those who really are being silenced.
  • The Flat Worlders Might Be Winning March 11, 2024
    The term “flatten” has been gaining currency in the last few years and it has been rattling around in my head for a number of reasons, several of which relate to my recent piece in The Forward. The obvious application here is how the Israel/Hamas conflict has for too many people flattened an understanding of […]
  • BringThemHome March 6, 2024
    Yesterday, The Forward published something I wrote about my dear alma mater, Hampshire College, and a push by some students to get the College to issue a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. There are a few other ideas and points that did not fit in the published piece but which I think are […]
  • Sometimes silence is golden October 18, 2023
    For Artnet News, I wrote an opinion piece headlined as: Enough With the Solidarity Statements. Why Art Institutions Should Stop Taking Positions on Geopolitical Events They Have Nothing to Do With I am grateful to Artnet for their quick response and helpful edits, and very happy to have this published. I think (alas) that as […]
  • Veterans for Kaepernick September 29, 2017
    I find Yom Kippur to be a very personal holiday. Not that there aren’t things for which we all might atone in relation to how the outside world functions; kindness in all spheres would certainly make the world a better place. For me, the process of atoning typically means trying to peel myself back from […]

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