by David Tebaldi | Aug 3, 2009 | The Public Humanist
Who has a heart large enough to contain compassion both for the longing for Zion, for sanctuary, for a homeland, of the Jewish survivors who emigrated to the nascent Israel after WWII, and at the same time the longing for return, for justice, for a homeland, of the...
by Robert S. Cox | Aug 3, 2009 | The Public Humanist
There is something about western Massachusetts that seems to breed exceptionalism, exceptionally so, and I have struggled to figure out why. Over and again, I have heard from long-term residents how unusual the region is, and they seem to insist that something...
by David Tebaldi | Aug 12, 2009 | The Public Humanist
The Sykes-Picot Agreement concluded in 1916, was a secret agreement between the governments of the Great Britain and France, with the assent of Imperial Russia, defining their respective spheres of influence and control in the Middle East after the expected downfall...
by David Mednicoff | Aug 18, 2009 | The Public Humanist
The Bible is perhaps the most famous of very old sources that remind us of the importance of how we treat “the stranger in our midst,” which is also often cited by political philosophers as the true test of any civilization. The early Jews were commanded...
by Tim Wright | Aug 21, 2009 | The Public Humanist
So I’m talking with twenty-five year old Casey Llewellyn about music and I’m praising the digital sound quality on my iPod and she comes back at me with how analog sound reproduction is more accurate than digital, and tube amps are superior to solid state,...