Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Betsy's Bachelorette Party (cocktail)

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 Betsy's Bachelorette Party (lyrics by MSK, "arrangement" by Olivia at Butterworth's ) 2 oz St. Elizabeth's Allspice D...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

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  Levis Hot Dogs in Philadelphia, a brief photoessay https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wLoprKhEtQG-7Z308Ip1hWQY07xsc74cbn6l6lzMSlk/pub
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Response to Seth Tillman on proportional representation

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I am an Israeli political scientist, where proportional representation (henceforth PR) has been used for legislative elections since the beg...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Five preliminary thoughts on Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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The movie is smoothly put together. The narration is told in multiple interweaving strands with at least two layers of retrospection, as in ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Maimonides and his Demons

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1. The Rambam's knowledge of the world was generally inferior to that of Chazal. 2. Like rationalists generally, the Rambam claimed to b...
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Monday, December 14, 2020

Robert Heinlein on the Education Doctorate (1980)

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              Hilda said loudly, "Zebbie! You never told me you went to Heidelberg."                "You never asked, Sharpie...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

A Brief History of the Quarrel of Philosophy and Poetry

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From Plato and Aristotle to the 18th century, literature submitted to the judgment of philosophy. We then had 140 years of Romanticism, from...