Theranos Would Be Thriving in the Covid-19 Pandemic

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Theranos Would Be Thriving in the Covid-19 Pandemic:
Relaxed regulations, misinformation, and a big potential payout are reminiscent of the conditions that cultivated Theranos by Tyler Shultz on the Elemental Medium website on May 1, 2020.

A Jewish Doctor Examines the Black Death

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2020May 5, 2020 History, Science

Click Here to Read: A Jewish Doctor Examines the Black Death: Abraham Caslari, 14th-century medical witness from Catalonia by Susan L. Einbinder on the Tablet Website on May 5, 2020.
The citizens of Toumai bury their dead during the black death. Miniature from manuscript, Belgium, 14th century”. Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv – en:Beit Hatefutsot. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Curating Nazism in Today’s Europe

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Arts, History

Click Here to Read: Curating Nazism in Today’s Europe: Museums grapple with how to show visual art not isolated from greater sociohistorical processes by Matt Alexander Hanson on May 4, 2020.
Warsaw, parade in front of Adolf Hitler Image: Mensing. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Freud, the Law, and Michelangelo’s Moses by Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D.

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2020May 5, 2020 Arts, History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Freud, the Law, and Michelangelo’s Moses by
Robert L. Lippman, Ph.D.

Click Here to Purchase: The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert L. Lippman on IPBooks.net

Poetry Monday: May 4, 2020

By Tamar SchwartzMay 4, 2020May 4, 2020 Literature

Our Poetry Editor, Irene Willis, is on book leave this month, but to all of you who are mothers,she wishes you a Happy Mother’s Day! Go outside. Practice social distancing, but breathe fresh air. Read some of the poetry you have on hand, or go to our archives for more.

Resistance and The Resistance Banker: Dramas of the struggle against Nazism

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Film, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Resistance and The Resistance Banker: Dramas of the struggle against Nazism By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on May 1, 2020.

Pedro Almodóvar’s lockdown diary, part 1: the long journey to the night

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Film

Click Here to Read: Pedro Almodóvar’s lockdown diary, part 1: the long journey to the night by Pedro Almodóvar on the Sag Harbor Cinema website.
Click Here to Purchase: Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira with Merle Molofsky on IPBooks.net