Tag: History

• Touro Synagogue / President’s Day

  I visited the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island this weekend. It’s the oldest synagogue in the United States, and Washington delivered his “Letter to the Hebrew Congregation” to the community in 1790. Reading his letter was a stirring reminder of the unique greatness of the American project. Happy President’s Day!…

  February 19, 2024
• *Killers of the Flower Moon*

  (spoilers below) There’s a criticism of some of Martin Scorcese’s movies that he makes the behavior he’s trying to condemn look cool. Scorcese’s Jordan Belfort may be insane scum, but he also oozes charisma. I think there’s a case to be made that Scorcese’s doing a Miltonian thing to show…

  October 30, 2023
• Rawls’ Theology and *The Devil Wears Prada*

  I liked this tweet from Zohar Atkins the other day. What Anne Hathaway’s character missed is how her world, the water she swims in, is downstream of the deliberate creations of artists, which are in turn the result of ideas from others that influenced those artists and so on. I…

  October 4, 2023