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Good Hair: A Review

by Josh Markovitz 03.09.2010

If you grew up male (as I did) you probably think of your hair as just a part of your head, for which you occasionally employ scissors and a comb to keep it under control and out of the way. At the same time, you were probably vaguely aware that matters hair-related might be a [...]

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August hidden in Lithuania

by Josh Markovitz 11.04.2009

It was August in Lithuania. I, twenty-four years old, sat on the floor with the other students. We spoke in Yiddish among ourselves, but our voices were kept soft; the authorities couldn’t know about our meeting. A man with a beard, a noted scholar, stood up and told us why he had not spoken with [...]

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A thought provoking book review: Why Are Jews Liberals?

by Josh Markovitz 11.04.2009

Some opinions on the age old question
In Why Are Jews Liberal?, longtime Commentary Magazine editor-in-chief and Congressional Medal of Honor awardee Norman Podhoretz attempts to provide a definitive answer to one of the most perplexing anomalies in American politics. After all, considering their choice of professions and traditionally strong family values, Jews seem odd candidates [...]

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Apple falls far from tree with Chomsky

by Josh Markovitz 06.03.2009

Liberal Noam Chomsky has surprisingly traditional roots in his conservative father, Hebrew educator William Chomsky
We’re all familiar with the old adage: the apple never falls far from the tree. But sometimes, one has to admit, it does. Sometimes, apples fall very far from their trees; sometimes children turn out very different from their parents. Unimpressive [...]

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The theoretician of Hamas

by Josh Markovitz 03.02.2009

Prom night gone horribly wrong
Nowadays, Hamas is often in the news, alternately described as a militant group and as the democratically elected government of the Palestinians in Gaza. Both are accurate.
If you enter the word “Hamas” into a search engine, you’ll find that Hamas sees itself as the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a [...]

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Wicked – a conservative morality tale

by Josh Markovitz 03.02.2009

When you ask people to describe Wicked, the Broadway show, you’ll usually get one of several responses. “A teeny-bopper musical,” “a Disney movie on stage,” or, somewhat more charitably, “an attempt to get young people interested in musical theatre.” Each description points to a different aspect of Wicked’s pop culture appeal, that is, to its [...]

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“Expelled” debunks scientific pretense

by Josh Markovitz 06.02.2008

Ben Stein’s (“Bueller?… Bueller?”) documentary takes a look at how American schools revoke any theory of creation beyond Darwinism.
America has always stood for freedom, and for defending freedom. Americans have always believed in the free exchange of ideas, that the truth is most rigorously discovered after examining a given issue from both sides. Yet in [...]

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Josh Markovitz

Good Hair: A Review

August hidden in Lithuania

A thought provoking book review: Why Are Jews Liberals?

Apple falls far from tree with Chomsky

The theoretician of Hamas

Wicked – a conservative morality tale

“Expelled” debunks scientific pretense

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