May 21st, 2009
Watch this video, and tell me if you think it’s anti-Semitic.
Seven Jewish Children
Go ahead, I’ll wait.
When I started to hear whispers of outrage about brilliant British playwright Caryl Churchill’s new work Seven Jewish Children, I was impressed. It’s not every day that a playwright crosses the blood-brain barrier between the arts and the news. I [...]
Apr 27th, 2009
The only thing that spreads faster than new viruses are tall tales about those viruses: lack of knowledge and abundance of fear make for perfect myth-breeding conditions. (Exhibit A: AIDS.) This is especially true with animal-origin diseases, which echo ancient prohibitions against intimate animal-human contact. (The cause of 1976 cases of human swine flu [...]