PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Culture RBG Goes Classical For New Album Inspired By Her Life
With Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement threatening to throw the Supreme Court’s balance off kilter, all eyes are on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the famous dissenter and keeper of the progressive flame — but all ears? A new, nine-song cycle inspired by the liberal lion’s life is now available for those who can’t get enough RBG. While…
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Culture Watch An Animated Introduction To Anna Freud
On July 4, 2018, Open Culture featured a video from Alain de Botton’s School of Life Youtube series wherein Freud’s favorite daughter, Anna, swats away blowfish and frolics among cutouts of a drunkard, a dejected child and a mustachioed gymnast with a bib and pacifier. It’s quite the ride. The six and a half minute…
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The Schmooze Alan Dershowitz Kvetches About Martha’s Vineyard — And The Internet Laughs At Him
Alan Dershowitz had a thing or two to say about liberals pestering Trump administration officials. At least that’s what he claimed he was talking about. The bulk of the legal eagle’s latest oped is really more about how Dershowitz’s friends in Martha’s Vineyard are “shunning” him for his support of Trump on Fox News and…
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Culture ‘The Catcher Was A Spy’ Strikes Out On Jewish Themes
There’s a moment in “The Catcher Was a Spy,” the new Paul Rudd-led biopic about the Major League catcher, polyglot and American operative, Morris “Moe” Berg that feels out of place. In the scene, Berg (Rudd) is in the cabin of a ship headed for the coast of Italy. Joining Berg is the physicist, Samuel…
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Culture No, Mike Huckabee — Moses Would Be A Bad Supreme Court Pick
On Friday, June 29th, 2018, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Twitter’s least favorite purveyor of dad jokes, made a bold claim about one of our prophets on Fox News. In the aftermath of the news of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, Huckabee, speaking to Fox’s Bill Hemmer, claimed that if Trump “put Moses up for the…
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