Stories By Dr. Sam Ben-Meir
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Oped
The Second Amendment has become a loathsome idol seeking American blood
June 23, 2022We have made a fetish out of the Second Amendment: it has become a loathsome idol...
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Leisure
Harmonious Magic: JMW Turner at the Boston Museum of Fine Art
June 9, 2022Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the English Romantic artist who lifted landscape and seascape painting to...
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Leisure
Charles Ray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 2, 2022Charles Ray (b. 1953) – undoubtedly one of the most conceptually and visually breathtaking sculptors alive...
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Leisure
Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky at the Guggenheim
April 19, 2022The Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was one of the early pioneers in the field of...
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Oped
We have grown allergic to truth
March 24, 2022We have grown allergic to truth and have forgotten why we ever valued it at all....
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Oped
The case for military intervention in Ukraine
March 8, 2022There is a strong case to be made for US military intervention in Ukraine, despite the...
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Oped
Autonomy and the moral obligation to get vaccinated
December 16, 2021To date, nearly two hundred million Americans – just over 60 percent of the population –...
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Economy
Billionaires exceed the total wealth of the bottom half of Americans
September 9, 2021Is it not extraordinary that in a country that claims to be as enlightened and advanced...
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Leisure
Modern and contemporary ceramics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
July 17, 2021Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection – an exhibition running at the Metropolitan Museum...
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Leisure
Drawings of Paul Cézanne at the Museum of Modern Art
July 1, 2021New York’s Museum of Modern Art is currently presenting an exhibition devoted to an in-depth review...