Abraham Nussbaum

Physician, Teacher, Writer


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  • On Wealth and Poverty, St. John Chrysostom

    On Wealth and Poverty, St. John Chrysostom

    No matter how radical your proposal, John Chrysostom remains the standard Redistribution? In this life, and the next. Attacking inequality? No quarter. Poverty? Material and spiritual. Bracing indictment? For today and tomorrow. That’s the pattern: he operates fully in this world and in the beyond. “…remember this without fail, that…

  • Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison

    Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison

    What if medicine had the equivalent of craft books? Alison offers alternatives to the Freytag triangle– exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and denouement– for writers. Instead of triangles, she looks to nature and finds patterns–waves, wavelets, meanders, spirals, radials, cells, fractals, even tsunami–which some narratives are…

  • Strangers to Ourselves, Rachel Aviv

    Strangers to Ourselves, Rachel Aviv

    We all get sad and afraid, but when does it become major depression and generalized anxiety? After you see a psychiatrist. Better than any writer I know, Aviv narrates how a diagnosis changes how a person feels over time. To get there, she mines her own history. She develops case reports that would make Golden…