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Better Than it Ever Was: Journalism in the Internet Age

A few weeks ago, I read an article from the New York Magazine called The Case Against the Media, By The Media. It was a long collection of interviews with various well-known journalists, authors, and newspaper editors. In the transcripts, ... Read More

Bench By The Road

No Small Bench By the Road: The Story of Brister Freeman

If you follow the trail signs through the Hapgood-Wright parking lot in Concord, Massachusetts, you will soon find yourself on a curated interpretive trail called, “Thoreau’s Path on Brister’s Hill.” Walking along this path, you are ... Read More

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Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan: A Reconstructionist’s Surprising Impact on Modern Orthodoxy

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, one of the most famous rabbis of the 20th century, is perhaps most well known as the founder of Reconstructionism, a new denomination of Judaism that seeks to embrace modernity while maintaining a respect for Jewish ... Read More

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Stern Library Renovations Make Headway

The established hush of the Stern library landscape will meet a lively new addition this semester. Renovations to the periodical room of the Hedi Steinberg Reference Library are underway, and involve an innovative layout complete with group ... Read More

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Consequences of the Little Mistakes: A Review of ‘Indignation’

Indignation, an adaptation of the novel by Philip Roth, delivers. The film begins with two seemingly unrelated scenes: soldiers in the midst of the Korean War, and an elderly woman staring emptily at a floral-patterned wall while receiving ... Read More