It’s about greed; it’s about taking only the best part of things, the cream off the top, the fat. And this taking of the fat has reached a crisis point in America—a critical mass, if you will.
This year I'm hacking the Haggadah again: collaging together a text from books and the Internet that captures the beautiful spirit of the ritual as I see it. At least the way I see it this year.
Sometimes you read a story published almost a hundred years ago in a magazine and you ask yourself, “Would this stand a chance of getting published today?” These sentences are…