Heroism

Eizehu Gibor: Jessica Jones – who is a hero?

(Yes, spoilers. Get over it)In Emily Nussbaum’s superb New Yorker essay about the television series “Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” she asks, ...

What Happens When Our Heroines Fail Us?

One of the great disappointments of this summer has been finding out, with the publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set ...

A True Sports Hero — And A Mentsch

It’s getting hard to find role models in sports these days.  Especially in the National Football League, where stars such ...

A Hundred Thousand Miracles

I cannot remember the last time I switched on the news—be it on the television or the radio—or glanced at a newspaper headline ...