To the Vitamin-D-deprived, Last year, Norman Podhoretz, neocon pioneer and Commentary editor from 1960 to 1995, published the tauntingly titled book Why Are Jews Liberal?. He might have come to different conclusions (or even a subtler question) had he more closely read Michael Staub’s Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar [...]
Archive for the ‘Jews’ Category
Q & A: Michael Staub, Postwar Americanist
Posted in african-americans, Jews, Lazy Scholar Interview, politics, psychology, tagged 1960s, interview, jewish, Judaism, Michael Staub, norman podhoretz, psychiatry, radicalism on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Yearbook in Review
Posted in books, cartoons, education, Jews on May 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Dear sunscreen appliers, The Lazy Scholar is happy to return to these webpages after a protracted journey through the land of end-of-semester labor—paper grading and dissertation prospecting, to be precise. There are still some seniors milling (and drinking) around campus, biding their time until commencement. But so far, I haven’t spotted any yearbooks—that tried and [...]
Good Bye, Leaven!
Posted in advertising, african-americans, food, holidays, Jews, religion, video on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the domestically-inclined, Break out your horseradish everybody! Passover is officially here, bringing with it gefilte fish, chocolate-covered matzo, brisket, and all the other healthy treats you’ve come to associate with the feast of the unleavened bread. In truth, perverse as it might sound, I do look forward to Passover every year, I suppose because [...]
Hanukkah Caroling
Posted in fun, holidays, Jews, music, tagged hanukkah on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear holiday lovers, In case you’ve lost track of your candle-lighting, tonight’s the sixth night of Hanukkah—a.k.a. the Festival of Lights, a.k.a. the Jewish Christmas, a.k.a. an excuse to eat oily, fried foods. Hanukkah sometimes felt like a hard holiday to get into as a kid. I loved the eight days of presents and the [...]
Rabbis, Incompetent and Feisty
Posted in books, film, Jews on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To the always already caffeine dependent, The nominations are in! No, not for the Oscars or the Golden Globes, but the awards we’ve all been waiting for: The Independent Spirit Awards. Let the office pools begin! In all honesty, while I tired of televised award ceremonies long ago, the ISA’s—or is it the Indies? the [...]
Become a Fan
-
Recent Posts
- Boy Scouts in America: Or, Scrutiny in the Archive
- Old News: Advertising, Globetrotting, Fishing
- Q & A: Nicholas Syrett, Historian of Gender and Sexuality
- Old News: Ice Cream, Gay Marriage, Stamps!
- California Dreaming
- Divided States #3: Connecticut Connections
- Nintendo Days
- Q & A: Michael Staub, Postwar Americanist
- Back to the Land, Now and Then
- An Archival Pride Parade
Archives by month
- September 2010 (1)
- August 2010 (4)
- July 2010 (3)
- June 2010 (6)
- May 2010 (2)
- April 2010 (6)
- March 2010 (5)
- February 2010 (5)
- January 2010 (2)
- December 2009 (6)
- November 2009 (11)
- October 2009 (13)
- September 2009 (3)
-
-
Comments
Categories
- advertising (15)
- african-americans (6)
- ballet (1)
- Baltimore (1)
- baseball (1)
- books (17)
- cars (1)
- cartoons (8)
- Chicago (1)
- children (3)
- circus (1)
- cities (1)
- college (3)
- commerce (6)
- commercialism (2)
- disability studies (2)
- Divided States (3)
- domesticity (4)
- economics (2)
- education (3)
- environment (2)
- fashion (2)
- feminist theory (1)
- film (8)
- food (11)
- fun (2)
- government (1)
- Hispanic (1)
- holidays (5)
- humor (3)
- illness (2)
- Jews (5)
- Lazy Scholar Interview (6)
- lectures (1)
- leisure (8)
- LGBT (6)
- libraries (1)
- medicine (1)
- military (2)
- music (9)
- musicals (3)
- Native Americans (1)
- periodicals (13)
- photography (15)
- poetry (3)
- politics (7)
- psychology (1)
- pulp fiction (3)
- radio (1)
- religion (3)
- science fiction (1)
- scrapbooks (1)
- shopping (2)
- sports (2)
- technology (3)
- television (5)
- theater (4)
- Uncategorized (2)
- video (8)
- visual culture (24)
Category Cloud
