Happy Purim! To celebrate, here's a clip of Jewish Role Model Les Grossman

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Sure, Claude Lévi-Strauss made a lot of contributions to the academy, but just imagine if he started a bar in 1964 called "The Wild Pansy" and spent the next fifty years creating craft cocktails out of all of the plants mentioned in Mythologiques.

I wrote a blog post:
alex.golub.name/2024/03/05/a...

"Men plug the dykes of their most needed beliefs with whatever mud they can find"

- Clifford Geertz, Commonsense as a Cultural System