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.
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The End of Progressive Intellectual Life
Click Here to Read: The End of Progressive Intellectual Life: How the foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center left BY Michael LInd on the Tablet website on April 12, 2022.
Ford Foundation Building. Image: Kenlarry. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Poetry Monday: April 4, 2022
“Oh, to be in England, now that April’s there”
Who said that? If we really can’t remember, we can Google it, as we do almost everything nowadays. I just did, and it was Robert Browning.
Good morning everyone. Of course we’d love to be where cowslips and other lovely flowers are blooming, but they’re also a-bloom in California and anywhere in the world where we don’t have to swallow antihistamines for protection against loveliness.
“April, April, weep thy girlish laughter
Then a morning after
Weep thy girlish tears”
If you’ve heard of William Watson, you now have, because he’s the one who said that. Continue reading Poetry Monday: April 4, 2022