by Rachel Zucker | Sep 8, 2009 | The Public Humanist
One rainy day this summer, I called a childhood friend to say, “Anne Frank would have been eighty years old today.” She burst into tears and we talked about our experience, now two decades ago, reading Anne’s diary in class. Since we have been...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 8, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Although Labor Day weekend has become the traditional end of summer marker (even falling late as it has this year), the Federal holiday was signed into existence in order to honor the nation’s workforce. What an odd holiday this year, then, when so many are...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Sep 8, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Hi guys,Ted Kennedy's dead, and maybe single payer is too, never mind justice itself, but at least people still decorate poodles fabulously.
by Cherchez La Femme | Sep 8, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme
This week's episode of Mad Men, paid a lot of attention to women's issues. After the Don-centric last half of season two, it seems that the writers are returning to what made the show so dynamic and addictive in the first place: an analysis of the tension...