Editorials

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Hudson River plane crash: Been there, done that.

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.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
Hogarth's 'Gin Lane': London seemed so crowded then, but now...

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?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
A gay film festival at Notre Dame? Why not?

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?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
Nelson Mandela visits International House in New York, 2000. The man at right is my father, Herman Rottenberg.

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.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
No, I never heard of Ajay Bhatt (left) either. (Art: Matt Herring, The Economist.)

Score one for population growth

Benjamin Franklin’s energy solution

While you were worrying about population growth and energy shortages, one obscure member of the human race may have eliminated the problem. Reason to be grateful he was born, yes?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 2 minute read
'I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,' said Charles Foster Kane. But that was 70 years ago.

The Inquirer’s squabbling owners

Where are the grownups?

To much rejoicing in the Inquirer newsroom, a Philadelphia judge last week reinstated Bill Marimow as the newspaper’s editor. But the critical question for Philadelphians, I would argue, is not who edits the Inquirer but who owns it. The answer isn’t reassuring.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
Will opera houses become white elephants?

Editor's Digest

Art institutions that deserve to fail.Opera makes less sense than ever. The economic value of an arts education.Hollywood plotlines are still sidelining women. How postmodernism killed the avant garde.
Jim Rutter

Jim Rutter

Editorials 3 minute read
Herman Rottenberg with his great-grandchildren Eddie and Ella Yellin, 2011.

Death of a father, and an aunt

Two vital souls, together at last

My father and my aunt were very different people who didn’t see much of each other, but they shared an indefatigable optimism and a determination to do what they could to make the world a better place.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 2 minute read

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Q & A about BSR’s new design

Everything you wanted to know about BSR’s new look

After nearly eight years as Philadelphia’s unique independent forum for sophisticated arts and culture commentary, Broad Street Review has unveiled a whole new design. Here your tech-deficient editor answers your questions.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
Edison, who changed the world, was the youngest of seven children.

Two cheers for population growth

Too many people? Well, how much is too much?

The trouble with population doomsayers is that they look at people as useless burdens on the planet rather than ingenious problem solvers. They forget that the most creative people are often the youngest kids in the family— or the youngest kids in our global family.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read