Encyclopedic Knowledge: Rokhl’s Golden City

By Tamar SchwartzApril 29, 2022April 29, 2022 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Encyclopedic Knowledge: Rokhl’s Golden City: A new look at the story behind one of the quirkiest Yiddish reference books
BY Rokhl Kafressen on the Tablet website on April 29, 2022.
Image: Stella259 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Homage to Borodyanka

By Tamar SchwartzApril 28, 2022April 28, 2022 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Bearing witness to the horror and majesty of a ruined, resilient Ukraine by Bernard-Henri Lévy
on the Tablet website on April 21, 2022.
Vitali Klitschko at the US Embassy in Kyiv for the US independence day celebrations Image: Embassy of the United States Kyiv, Ukraine Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Complex Systems Collapse Faster

By Tamar SchwartzApril 26, 2022April 26, 2022 History, Science

Click Here to Read: Why Complex Systems Collapse Faster: All civilizations collapse. The challenge is how to slow it down enough to prolong our happiness bu Ligo Bardi on the Tablet website on April 24, 2022.
Temple of the Great Jaguar, Tikal Guatemala. Image: Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada. Pubic Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Genocidal Logic of Putin’s War

By Tamar SchwartzApril 24, 2022April 24, 2022 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Genocidal Logic of Putin’s War by Michael Marder in the Los Angeles Review of Books on April 22, 2022.
Outline of Ukraine, based on a UN map of Ukraine and the Flag of Ukraine. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

AI’s first philosopher

By Tamar SchwartzApril 21, 2022April 21, 2022 History, Science

Click Here to Read: AI’s first philosopher: Alan Turing was a pioneer of machine learning, whose work continues to shape the crucial question: can machines think? by Sebastian Sunday Grève on the Aeon website,
Alan Turing. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Einstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited

By Tamar SchwartzApril 20, 2022April 20, 2022 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

ClicK Here to Read: Einstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited: Why Anti-War Efforts Go Nowhere By Robert J. Burrowes in the Sri Lanka Guardian on April 18, 2022.

On Becoming Freud: Signorelli’s Last Judgment, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, and Michelangelo’s Moses

By Tamar SchwartzApril 19, 2022April 20, 2022 Arts, History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: On Becoming Freud: Signorelli’s Last Judgment, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, and Michelangelo’s Moses
by Robert L. Lippman.
Click Here to Purchase: The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert L. Lippman.