For our Passover Seder, we ask people to share a story from their own experience or imagination that rhymes somehow with the exodus from slavery. Here’s how we put the prompt this time: This year, we’re feeling like Mitzrayim is here and our challenge is to allow something far better to push through and be …
I’ve seen it a few times now, an incipient meme. “If this were a movie,” people write, “no one would believe it.” “This” of course refers to the epidemic of surreality more than the virus itself (the latter being all-too believable). Yesterday’s news, for example, #IMPOTUS tweeting “LIBERATE!” in support of right-wing protesters against public …