Judith Hertog
@jbher.bsky.social
Writer, doubter, traveler, serial immigrant.
Bylines: New York Times, The Sun, Longreads, Tricycle, The Atlantic etc.
Interests: words, stories, the world, humans, and how humans make sense of this messy world.
www.judithhertog.com
Bylines: New York Times, The Sun, Longreads, Tricycle, The Atlantic etc.
Interests: words, stories, the world, humans, and how humans make sense of this messy world.
www.judithhertog.com
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people"
Exactly 425 years ago Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for arguing that the earth revolves around the sun.
Exactly 425 years ago Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for arguing that the earth revolves around the sun.
February 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people"
Exactly 425 years ago Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for arguing that the earth revolves around the sun.
Exactly 425 years ago Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for arguing that the earth revolves around the sun.
On my laptop, I just came across this old document that dates back to the previous Trump presidency. These are tips for resistance and maintaining community.
I don't remember where I got all these tips, but I think some of them are helpful...
Do you have anything to add?
I don't remember where I got all these tips, but I think some of them are helpful...
Do you have anything to add?
February 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
On my laptop, I just came across this old document that dates back to the previous Trump presidency. These are tips for resistance and maintaining community.
I don't remember where I got all these tips, but I think some of them are helpful...
Do you have anything to add?
I don't remember where I got all these tips, but I think some of them are helpful...
Do you have anything to add?
“But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.”
Foreign Policy just published my article and photo reportage about China's commodification of Tibet.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...
Foreign Policy just published my article and photo reportage about China's commodification of Tibet.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...
January 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“But today I am Drolma,” she said, “a Tibetan girl who is free and joyful and lives without care.”
Foreign Policy just published my article and photo reportage about China's commodification of Tibet.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...
Foreign Policy just published my article and photo reportage about China's commodification of Tibet.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/24/c...
#20BookChallenge
A favorite from my teenage years. I wrote an essay about rereading it as an adult.
A favorite from my teenage years. I wrote an essay about rereading it as an adult.
December 2, 2024 at 4:46 PM
#20BookChallenge
A favorite from my teenage years. I wrote an essay about rereading it as an adult.
A favorite from my teenage years. I wrote an essay about rereading it as an adult.
#20BookChallenge
Funny, smart, sad, subversive: a travelogue against travel.
I first fell in love with Diski when I read this 2014 essay in the LRB about her cancer diagnosis. Maybe the funniest patient essay I’ve read. Unfortunately,she died less than 2 years later. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Funny, smart, sad, subversive: a travelogue against travel.
I first fell in love with Diski when I read this 2014 essay in the LRB about her cancer diagnosis. Maybe the funniest patient essay I’ve read. Unfortunately,she died less than 2 years later. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
November 30, 2024 at 9:54 PM
#20BookChallenge
Funny, smart, sad, subversive: a travelogue against travel.
I first fell in love with Diski when I read this 2014 essay in the LRB about her cancer diagnosis. Maybe the funniest patient essay I’ve read. Unfortunately,she died less than 2 years later. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Funny, smart, sad, subversive: a travelogue against travel.
I first fell in love with Diski when I read this 2014 essay in the LRB about her cancer diagnosis. Maybe the funniest patient essay I’ve read. Unfortunately,she died less than 2 years later. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
#20BookChallenge
To distract herself from the ruins of her own life and the disintegration of Lebanon, Aaliya sets herself the pointless task of producing literary translations into Arabic that no one will ever read. Appropriate reading now, as Lebanon is recovering from yet another war.
To distract herself from the ruins of her own life and the disintegration of Lebanon, Aaliya sets herself the pointless task of producing literary translations into Arabic that no one will ever read. Appropriate reading now, as Lebanon is recovering from yet another war.
November 29, 2024 at 6:28 PM
#20BookChallenge
To distract herself from the ruins of her own life and the disintegration of Lebanon, Aaliya sets herself the pointless task of producing literary translations into Arabic that no one will ever read. Appropriate reading now, as Lebanon is recovering from yet another war.
To distract herself from the ruins of her own life and the disintegration of Lebanon, Aaliya sets herself the pointless task of producing literary translations into Arabic that no one will ever read. Appropriate reading now, as Lebanon is recovering from yet another war.
#20BookChallenge
I read this book when I first arrived in the US. It has shaped my view of this country ever since. A good Thanksgiving read!
I read this book when I first arrived in the US. It has shaped my view of this country ever since. A good Thanksgiving read!
November 28, 2024 at 5:43 PM
#20BookChallenge
I read this book when I first arrived in the US. It has shaped my view of this country ever since. A good Thanksgiving read!
I read this book when I first arrived in the US. It has shaped my view of this country ever since. A good Thanksgiving read!
#20BookChallenge
This account of Alexandra David-Neel’s 1923 journey to Lhasa inspired my life-long fascination with Tibet. I just wrote an article for Tricycle Magazine, in which I retrace her footsteps and realize she could be quite arrogant, prejudiced, and insufferable. Still, she’s my hero.
This account of Alexandra David-Neel’s 1923 journey to Lhasa inspired my life-long fascination with Tibet. I just wrote an article for Tricycle Magazine, in which I retrace her footsteps and realize she could be quite arrogant, prejudiced, and insufferable. Still, she’s my hero.
November 27, 2024 at 3:33 PM
#20BookChallenge
This account of Alexandra David-Neel’s 1923 journey to Lhasa inspired my life-long fascination with Tibet. I just wrote an article for Tricycle Magazine, in which I retrace her footsteps and realize she could be quite arrogant, prejudiced, and insufferable. Still, she’s my hero.
This account of Alexandra David-Neel’s 1923 journey to Lhasa inspired my life-long fascination with Tibet. I just wrote an article for Tricycle Magazine, in which I retrace her footsteps and realize she could be quite arrogant, prejudiced, and insufferable. Still, she’s my hero.
#20BookChallenge
About the history of the Hmong people and their displacement to the US. About war. About the US medical system and its values. About the way culture shapes how we see the world. About disregard for other people's reality. About cultural chauvinism. About a little girl who is ill.
About the history of the Hmong people and their displacement to the US. About war. About the US medical system and its values. About the way culture shapes how we see the world. About disregard for other people's reality. About cultural chauvinism. About a little girl who is ill.
November 26, 2024 at 7:21 PM
#20BookChallenge
About the history of the Hmong people and their displacement to the US. About war. About the US medical system and its values. About the way culture shapes how we see the world. About disregard for other people's reality. About cultural chauvinism. About a little girl who is ill.
About the history of the Hmong people and their displacement to the US. About war. About the US medical system and its values. About the way culture shapes how we see the world. About disregard for other people's reality. About cultural chauvinism. About a little girl who is ill.
#20BookChallenge
I read this holocaust memoir at age 15 and it has shaped my worldview ever since. Menahem Arnoni committed suicide not long after publication. Unfortunately, "Mother Wasn't Home for Her Funeral" was only published in Dutch.
I read this holocaust memoir at age 15 and it has shaped my worldview ever since. Menahem Arnoni committed suicide not long after publication. Unfortunately, "Mother Wasn't Home for Her Funeral" was only published in Dutch.
November 25, 2024 at 1:11 PM
#20BookChallenge
I read this holocaust memoir at age 15 and it has shaped my worldview ever since. Menahem Arnoni committed suicide not long after publication. Unfortunately, "Mother Wasn't Home for Her Funeral" was only published in Dutch.
I read this holocaust memoir at age 15 and it has shaped my worldview ever since. Menahem Arnoni committed suicide not long after publication. Unfortunately, "Mother Wasn't Home for Her Funeral" was only published in Dutch.
“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you."
#20BookChallenge
Stoner: I resisted it initially because I thought it’d be about smoking dope. In fact it's a quietly devastating book about life, failure and resignation. Few books move me to cry, but this one did.
Stoner: I resisted it initially because I thought it’d be about smoking dope. In fact it's a quietly devastating book about life, failure and resignation. Few books move me to cry, but this one did.
November 24, 2024 at 2:16 PM
“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you."
#20BookChallenge
Stoner: I resisted it initially because I thought it’d be about smoking dope. In fact it's a quietly devastating book about life, failure and resignation. Few books move me to cry, but this one did.
Stoner: I resisted it initially because I thought it’d be about smoking dope. In fact it's a quietly devastating book about life, failure and resignation. Few books move me to cry, but this one did.
“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you." I know I'm not supposed to add an explanation, but I'm bad at following rules
The Jungle: An expose of the horrors of early 20th-century extreme capitalism. Particularly scary if this is what the new US government wants to recreate.
The Jungle: An expose of the horrors of early 20th-century extreme capitalism. Particularly scary if this is what the new US government wants to recreate.
November 24, 2024 at 12:06 AM
“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you." I know I'm not supposed to add an explanation, but I'm bad at following rules
The Jungle: An expose of the horrors of early 20th-century extreme capitalism. Particularly scary if this is what the new US government wants to recreate.
The Jungle: An expose of the horrors of early 20th-century extreme capitalism. Particularly scary if this is what the new US government wants to recreate.
“People will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.” wrote Voltaire, who was born exactly 330 years ago today, in a letter to his friend Louise Dorothea of Meiningen.
In the years that have passed since he wrote this, people seem only to have gotten madder.
In the years that have passed since he wrote this, people seem only to have gotten madder.
November 21, 2024 at 3:35 PM
“People will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.” wrote Voltaire, who was born exactly 330 years ago today, in a letter to his friend Louise Dorothea of Meiningen.
In the years that have passed since he wrote this, people seem only to have gotten madder.
In the years that have passed since he wrote this, people seem only to have gotten madder.
Today 35 years ago, my father died at the age of 88. This is him in 1902, one year old.
Here is an essay that I wrote about him a few years ago:
indianareview.org/2016/02/onli...
Here is an essay that I wrote about him a few years ago:
indianareview.org/2016/02/onli...
November 14, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Today 35 years ago, my father died at the age of 88. This is him in 1902, one year old.
Here is an essay that I wrote about him a few years ago:
indianareview.org/2016/02/onli...
Here is an essay that I wrote about him a few years ago:
indianareview.org/2016/02/onli...