Gabriel Perlman
Gabriel Perlman
Recent Stories
Perlman, Washer and Wolfe: Faith in the 21st century
Faith is now becoming the new currency with which international relations are dealt. Boundaries based on culture, identity, even nationhood are wearing out. Religious faith, perennially crucial to so many people’s identity, might outlast secular faith in ethnicity or culture, which have not provided a sustainable cohesive effect within or among societies.
Perlman: McBulldog goes to Toad’s
The Redcoar Turncoat
Today marks Day One of wild wantonness, lascivious lechery and salacious sensuality. Toads a-hopping, breasts a-jiggling, drunkards a-fiddling — this is the inauguration of Sex Week at Yale.
Perlman: Where the iThings are
The Redcoat Turncoat
The iPad is the newest iThing to Apple’s technological empire — something to be dismissive about first, then secretly desire, then quite outwardly desire, then day-dream about for a while, semi-tentatively purchase, swiftly get bored with and feel hopelessly guilty about as it collects dusts on your now bookless shelf.
Perlman: The cultural bridge
This past Thanksgiving break, I found myself going back home to London, England — back to a Europe with a resurgent importance on the geopolitical stage, unexpectedly strengthened in cohesion by the recently-ratified Lisbon Treaty. Next year, Europe’s population is expected to hit half-a-billion and its GDP to nearly match that of the U.S. and China combined.
Perlman: Don’t fear your sections
We all know one when we see one. We all hate one when we see one. We know what they look like, what they dress like, what they sound like, what they smell like.
Perlman: Love and life, scheduled
If Shakespeare said “All the world’s a stage,” then are life and love at Yale just part of one big Greek tragedy?