A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 20, 2014 General News

Click Here to Read: A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying by John Tierney in The New York Times on December 15, 2014.

Class 7: Sadism and Masochism by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 20, 2014 Papers

Click Here to Read: Class 7: Sadism and Masochism by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton.

Click Here to Read: Class 6: Paranoia by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton on this website .

Click Here to Read: Class 5 Aggression: The Impulse to Mastery and the Reaction of Anger by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton on this website. Continue reading Class 7: Sadism and Masochism by Drs. Martin Blum and Jonathan Easton

Philosophy Thursday: Simon Critchley

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 19, 2014 Philosophy Thursday

Click Here to Read: Simon Critchley on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Abandon (Nearly) All Hope By Simon Critchley in The New York Times on April 19, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Tea with Simon Critchley: the Separation of Church and State Is Impossible By Rollo Romig In The New Yorker no February 15, 2012. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Simon Critchley

Mourning Habits: Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 19, 2014 Art

Click Here to Read: Mourning Habits: Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire by Adele Tutter on the Brooklyn Rail Website on December 18, 2014.

Readers React CIA pscyhologists don’t represent their field on torture

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2014 Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read: Readers React CIA psychologists don’t represent their field on torture Letters to the Editor of the Los Angeles Times on December 15, 2014.

Poets as Smugglers: Sutzkever, Kaczerginski, and How the Remnants of the YIVO Archive Reached New York

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2014 Books, Poetry

Click Here to Read: Poets as Smugglers: Sutzkever, Kaczerginski, and How the Remnants of the YIVO Archive Reached New York on January 5, 2015.

Abraham Sutzkever, an unidentified man, and Gershon Abramowicz bringing YIVO materials hidden during the war to a new Jewish museum. Vilna, 1944. YIVO Archives.

Marathon reading of Sigmund Freud’s ‘Civilization and its Discontents’ will shed light on human violence

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2014 Books

Click Here to Read: Marathon reading of Sigmund Freud’s ‘Civilization and its Discontents’ will shed light on human violence: Judson Memorial Church and New Books in Psychoanalysis presents a staging of a seminal work on mankind’s urge to destroy. BY Gersh Kuntzman in the New York Daily News on December 18, 2014.

The reading will take place on January 3, 2014 at 2:30-7 p.m.

Entering its third decade, the Klezmatics have made klezmer a household sound

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2014 Music

Click Here to Read: Entering its third decade, the Klezmatics have made klezmer a household sound By Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel on December 17, 2014.