Ilan Ben-Meir
Ben-Meir: We need us more bluegrass

Last week I casually suggested to a friend that she listen to more bluegrass. Her slightly stunned and vaguely appalled response drove home a stark […]

Ben-Meir: Let us mourn Annie Le

Any tragedy contains within itself an untold number of smaller tragedies. Already, the murder of Annie Le MED ’13 is being discussed as an attack […]

Ben-Meir: History, then and now

What is history in the era of YouTube? With the Internet providing easy access to endless (and endlessly fragmented) information, and with self-selected social networks […]

Ben-Meir: The new ‘separate but equal’

As the last results of last Tuesday’s elections slowly dripped in, I was reminded of Barack Obama’s appraisal of John McCain’s health care plan: “What […]

Ben-Meir: Constitution (Yester)Day

Yesterday, families, schools and democratic individuals across the United States ignored Constitution Day. And why not? Certainly, the AIG bailout seems to have more bearing […]