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Are We Seeing a Culture Shift?
Are We Seeing a Culture Shift? Dates vary, when people try to characterize a phase of culture, but for (let us say) the past 50 years, opinion-shapers in our culture have functioned under the aegis of the following influences: post-structuralism, … Continue reading
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Book Matters
Book Matters The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century By Adam Kirsch This is an unusual book. Its author, Adam Kirsch, has combined skills rarely found together: poet, successful literary critic, academic … Continue reading