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Heated Rivalry’s Closet — and Mine

Jan 2, 2026 in Both/And

My Favorite Music, Film, and TV of 2025

Dec 23, 2025 in Both/And

In Pluribus, Enlightenment Mostly Sucks

Dec 16, 2025 in Both/And

Why a ‘Meditation Rabbi’ is Watching Horror Films

Aug 20, 2025 in Both/And

Nick Drake is Just in Time

Jul 29, 2025 in Both/And

Andor and the Banality of Totalitarianism

Apr 30, 2025 in Both/And

Before I learned Kabbalah, I learned from David Lynch

Jan 17, 2025 in Forward

Has Jeffrey Kripal Gone Mad, or Normal?

Jan 2, 2025 in Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

‘Megalopolis’ is an aesthetically brilliant, morally bankrupt film that traffics in homophobic and antisemitic clichés

Oct 1, 2024 in Forward

Eden Pearlstein: Why Nothing Really Matters

Sep 22, 2024 in Both/And

Kinds of Kindness is a Great Film About the Psychological Roots of Fascism

Jul 9, 2024 in Both/And

Civil War is brilliant, but the bad guys are mostly offscreen

Apr 18, 2024 in Both/And

The Collectivist Apocalypse of The Three-Body Problem

Apr 12, 2024 in Both/And

“Leave the World Behind” Filled Me with Dread

Dec 20, 2023 in Both/And

Life, Death, Heartbreak, Disillusionment — Dylan’s First Album as an Old Man

Jul 12, 2020 in Forward

Leonard Cohen’s Profound, Posthumous Farewell

Nov 29, 2019 in Daily Beast

Gay Yoga Guru Johnson Chong Can Help Sort Out Your Karma and Dharma

Aug 25, 2019 in Daily Beast

These “Men in Black” Think Aliens Made Your iPhone

Jul 2, 2019 in Daily Beast

Talmudic Transgressions Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin (Review)

Jun 21, 2019 in Reading Religion

Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin

Jun 21, 2019 in Reading Religion

John Judis Says Progressives Should Embrace Nationalism

Mar 25, 2019 in Daily Beast

Super Bowl LIII Was Good for the Jews

Feb 4, 2019 in Daily Beast

Why Han Solo is the Most Goyish Star Wars Hero

May 29, 2018 in Forward

Philip Roth Turned the Sentence Into an Art Form

May 23, 2018 in Daily Beast

The Harvey Milk Nobody Knew

May 14, 2018 in Moment

Is the Decentralized “New Power” of Peer-Led Social Movements a Blessing or a Curse?

May 5, 2018 in Daily Beast

Thank You for Burning Man, Larry Harvey

Apr 29, 2018 in Daily Beast

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Intergenerational Trauma

Apr 22, 2018 in Forward

A Tale of Two Netanyahus: “7 Days in Entebbe”

Mar 16, 2018 in Daily Beast

Julius Eastman’s Brilliant Minimalist Music Lives On

Jan 27, 2018 in Daily Beast
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