I’m having a hard time finding a recorded lecture that is delivered with scholarship, eloquence, passion, and vigor as the one that historian Timothy Snyder gave at Yale in 2015 on his book “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.” The historian managed to speak for 50 straight minutes without looking at his notes,…

In an inter-connected world, finding friends has never been more easy, and yet these relationships have never been more fragile. The increased pool of potential friend relations, enabled by meetup apps and social media, makes relations more ephemeral and fragile. Before social media, finding friends required meeting in third places (bars, barber shops, parks, private…