A Walk in Baicheng

Click here to read “A Walk in Baicheng” by Jian Ping, CER’07, CER’11, an alumni essay from The University of Chicago Magazine July-August 2012 Print Edition.

Ping writes, “During the Cultural Revolution in China, my father was declared a traitor, and my mother was imprisoned by the Red Guards and repeatedly coerced to divorce him.”

 

The real reason the Olympic Committee refuses to commemorate the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich

Click here to read “Jewish Blood Is Cheap” by Deborah E. Lipstadt from Tablet Magazine on July 17, 2012.

Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of Nextbook Press’ The Eichmann Trial, is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. She is a contributor to Jewish Jocksout this October.

Click Here to Read:  Review of the movie Munich by Arlene Kramer Richards on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Yale Kramer on Munich on this website.

Gelernter’s “America Lite” with an Introduction by Nathan Szajnberg

Gelernter’s “America Lite”

David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale University, was a victim of the Unabomber who was “on to” Gelernter’s innovative ideas about how computers work and can work.

Recovering from being wounded by the mailed bomb, Gelernter proceeded to broaden his perspectives in his subsequent books. His newest, “America Lite,” sounds like an update on Alan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, his complaint and lament at how Universities are failing in their task to broaden critical thinking.
Here is a short interview and also some brief words by him. (He has an apt name, which in Yiddish means “learned one” or “educated.”)

Click Here to View:  Video of an Interview with Galertner on the Fox Business News website on June 26, 2012. Continue reading Gelernter’s “America Lite” with an Introduction by Nathan Szajnberg