Rabbi George Altshuler

Something radical happens when you riff on your trumpet after singing about your death.

Soon after I feel powerful, I am reminded of how little I control. When I feel small and meaningless, I am reminded of the huge ethical obligation on me as a human. In the seconds that I am able to hold both of these truths at once, time moves forward and this understanding disappears.

“I found it wondrous to read the Bible this way.”

Here we are in this mighty and chaotic universe, and in this small corner of the painting, there are the humans, picnicking

The case against the New Yorker’s dominant sensibility, the case against this professor I interviewed, the case against Socrates — the case for answers.

Macklemore asks us to feel glorious. We should celebrate with him, but we need so much more.

The importance and danger of becoming your true self.

Submerging oneself in the rich world of basketball analysis is one of the highest forms of escapism.

Why the musician Manu Chao is the ultimate anti-Trump and deserves our unabashed praise.

Like being hit in the head after one is already concussed, Trump’s ascent is a painful reminder of something we already knew: mainstream American masculinity can bring out the worst aspects of human nature. It is easy to list the wrongs that have been associated with various forms of American masculinity — from the role…