Parshas Bereishis: Isolation and Abstraction as Original Sin

Featuring the History of Crack Cocaine

Every year I read the story of Adam and Chava, and every year I think something different is going on. If you wanted, for whatever reason, to track my intellectual development over time, you could do worse than read what I’ve written about this each year. This year is no different. But I do think I’m onto something, and I want to show it to you.

We begi…