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The Persistence of Magic

5/31/2012 – 10:36 am

In the midst of George Orwell’s essay, “Notes on Nationalism,” he makes a reference to sympathetic magic: “Nationalist thought often gives the impression of being tinged by belief in sympathetic magic – a belief which probably comes out in the widespread custom of burning political enemies in effigy, or using pictures of them as targets […]

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Missing the Connection

3/29/2012 – 1:26 pm

What if I wasn’t me?  How would the world look?  I guess it would depend on whichever skin other than my own I stand in. I’ll give you an example.  The other day, remembering my youth, I realized synagogues – Temple Beth David and Temple Emanu-El – stood on two of the four corners of […]

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Still the Story of America

3/22/2012 – 12:49 pm

The story of America is the story of race.  It has been since a couple Germans grafted the name of an Italian navigator onto the continents in the middle of the last millenium.  That it is still the story of America (especially the United States of) is evidenced by two stories in the news this […]

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