Lady Gaga vs Sarah McLachlan
A few days ago, the music section of the New York Times carried a piece by Jon Caramanica entitled "Girl Pop's Lady Gaga Makeover." T…
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Sheikh Jarrah: A Just Struggle for a Just Jerusalem
If you want to keep up with the struggle against Israeli attempts to drive Palestinians out of Jerusalem with evictions, house demolitions, s…
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The Goddess and the Bull: Kindle edition
For those very few of you out there who have not yet read my book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk and the dawn of civilization, the Kindle edition is now…
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Religious bigotry intensifies in Israel
One of the most outrageous aspects of the so-called "Jewish state" is the monopoly given to Orthodox Judaism in deciding not only matters o…
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By Hook and By Crook: Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank
This is the title of a report issued earlier this week by B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization. The group claims that settlers effect…
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"Safe Passage": How to get from Gaza to the West Bank
The Israeli human rights organization Gisha , which fights for the rights of movement of Gazans, has launched a new computer game designed to illustr…
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Emily Henochowicz lost an eye...
... to an Israeli tear gas canister while protesting the Israeli blockade of Gaza. An American Jewish artist, she saw injustice clearly and tried to …
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Lorrie Moore
I'm in a Lorrie Moore phase. I've been in it for a long time, going back and forth chronologically in her bibliography. Reading her first nov…
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Mondoweiss
I want to call the attention of readers to what I think is one of the best, if not the best, blogs on the Middle East and Israel-Palestine in partic…
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Tempest in a Tea Party?
Today's Washington Post has a post-mortem on the primary elections which makes clear that the Tea Party is not quite the powerful movement it w…
Read more![The truth at last, or at least some of it, about Peter Rathjen, the U of Adelaide, the U of Melbourne, the U of Tasmania, etc. [Updated Sept 3, 2020: University of Melbourne "leader" finally speaks]](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NtaT0gwizlA/X0YoPAu3_nI/AAAAAAAAK0U/HMTuK0240ssttw105h75kgbWbSaXS2v4wCNcBGAsYHQ/w680/Rathjen.jpg)
My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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