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Where King Lear messed up
William Shakespeare, estate planner?
Viewed through an estate-planning prism, what’s the moral of King Lear? Trust your real estate but not your kids? Hang on to your assets until your last dying breath? For the answer, I turned to my own 1998 book about inheritance.
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5 minute read
Imitation is the sincerest form...
Does the New York Review read BSR?
In which the New York Review of Books catches up to Broad Street Review, albeit three years later.
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1 minute read
The Whig tradition, according to David Brooks
Are you ready for the Whig revolution?
With his customarily loony perspicacity, David Brooks of the New York Times has urged President Obama to reject liberalism and conservatism alike and instead embrace the Whig tradition. There’s just one small problem. . . .
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From the new editor of Broad Street Review
'The world's most assertive Quaker'
Who is Judy Weightman, and what is she doing with Broad Street Review?
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4 minute read
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Chris Christie in the spotlight
The politician as drama queen
People go into public service for many reasons, but at least some of them do so because they’re frustrated actors or audience junkies. Chris Christie’s self-dramatization may be extreme, but it’s hardly unique.
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David Brooks confronts legal marijuana
A Times columnist at the moral precipice
Is it too much to ask a New York Times columnist to spend even five minutes wondering why it’s OK to legalize alcohol, nicotine, uppers, and downers but culturally destructive to legalize pot?
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4 minute read
The editor steps down
Phase Two at BSR: The adventure continues
After eight years as editor of BSR, I’ve concluded that it's time for both BSR and me to recharge our batteries.
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5 minute read
The population debate (A reply)
A distant mirror: England’s population crisis of 1650
England faced a genuine crisis in the 17th Century when its population nearly doubled. But today England comfortably houses ten times as many people as it did then. So why does no one talk of an English population explosion today? And why was the Earth even more chaotic when there were no humans at all?
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Swarthmore’s Hillel controversy
What’s a college for, after all?
What’s it mean to be an enlightened Jew these days? For that matter, what’s it mean to be an enlightened Catholic? Should you silence offensive ideas and people, or should you try to engage them in dialogue?
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Mandela and Bush
A tale of two presidents
To Nelson Mandela, public life was a sacred calling for which he was prepared to die, if necessary. To George W. Bush, it was an awesome if temporary personal experience.
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6 minute read