Spiritual, but not religious, but not woo-woo
April 18, 2016
Years ago, a few days before Passover and a few days after we moved into the house where our children would grow up, I ran into one of my new neighbors, Mr. M—-.
Marty Kaplan
Marty Kaplan holds the Norman Lear Chair at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His Jewish Journal columns have won First Place in the Southern California Journalism Awards six times in the past six years. Reach him at martyk@jewishjournal.com
Attention must be paid (except to climate change)
April 1, 2016
A bombshell dropped last week. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
Is campaign news necessary?
March 21, 2016
Last week, Gallup asked Americans if they were watching news about the presidential campaign “very closely.” Four out of 10 said yes. I’m one of them. That’s crazy. Are you one of them? That’s crazy, too.
Why Clinton needs to adopt Sanders’ message
February 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee for president, and Donald Trump is going to be the Republican.
Thank you for not dying
February 8, 2016
David Wichs was walking to work in TriBeCa last Friday morning when a 565-foot construction crane toppled onto Worth Street and killed him. He was 38.
Professor, you’re fired! Or, the education of a Trump voter
January 11, 2016
“@marty kaplan Let me guess Marty you believe in global warming too Doctoral degree holder here”
The 7 stages of Too Much Trump Media Disorder
December 28, 2015
A news binge, not a booze binge, is why you’ll be starting the New Year with a civic hangover. You’ve been watching too much TV, and TV has been watching too much Donald Trump.
The San Bernardino terrorists’ 6-month-old
December 7, 2015
Think about the day she finds out who her parents were.
Jihadism is not nihilism
November 20, 2015
In the partisan battle over describing the Islamic State, Democrats have fastened on a philosophical term from 19th century European intellectual history.
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