Introducing the Chicago Commons
We're a publication built around the ideas we're meant to miss when we're being flooded with daily noise designed to confuse and divide.We cover journalism, history, philosophy, theology, art, pop culture, and humor - the types of content that reminds us how to think, not what to think. And help you see the [...]
The Enemy Is the Product: Power, Scapegoating, and the Jews
There's a trap that I keep hitting when talking about anti-semitism, whether historical or present day: the fact that it touches my identity as a Jewish woman causes others to be suspicious that I can't be trusted to describe the pattern and what it means without bias.This piece was cowritten with Claude, both [...]