Intrigue behind Schwager’s resignation from JDC
Still no word on the story behind the story of Steven Schwager’s abrupt resignation from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).
Notes on Maurice Sendak, Vidal Sassoon, death in the age of social media, and more
articles and essays about celebrity deaths the Eulogizer missed recently (and for which I am full of regret) and the self-referential media echo-chamber that drives the cult of personality from which we all feed (for better or for worse).
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