Means of Ascent
The president and the humble staircase: a short survey.
The Weimar Mood
by
Mark Dunbar
Posted on September 12, 2023
Image: Boys use German mark notes to make a kite during the hyperinflation of 1923; THR illustration/Ullstein.
Listening for those voices from the deep.
Paging Dr. Bot
Reconstituting the totality of a person knowing only the “parts” of his or her mind is equally nonsensical.
A Sentimental Education
The literature classroom is an unusually fit environment in which to pursue “the deepening and sharpening of emotional powers.”
Kundera and the Question of Jewish-Israeli Identity
by
Yiftach Ofek
Posted on September 28, 2023
Image: Bougainvillea in Jerusalem by Mathilde Pée/Unsplash.
Kundera chose to take the long view, reflecting on the relationship between the Jews and Europe, and, more broadly, on the Jews and that European, literary spirit to which he saw himself heir.