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Potato or poppy? For the chosen people, it’s been an age-old debate over their chosen food. And last night, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker evoked health, terrorism, and evolution to end the dispute between latkes and hamantashen once...
...Dershowitz, who has defended high-profile figures such as O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bülow, took the stand to attack high-cholesterol latkes...
Compared to latkes—which Dershowitz said are also highly addictive—it is possible to just eat one hamantash, a triangular cookie often containing poppy-seed filling...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz ripped into Jimmy Carter last night with all his hallmark bluster, excoriating the former President for refusing to engage in a debate and calling his latest book an “ahistorical” work. In a 90-minute solo appearance at Emerson Hall, Dershowitz extended his public assault on Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” which was released in November. He criticized the book’s argument and called Carter’s writing irresponsible, saying that the situation in Israel could...
...most popular classes. Pinker, who has in the past led the popular core Science B-62, “The Human Mind,” is co-teaching Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo,” with Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz this spring. There was no specific occasion for Pinker’s appearance on the show, as he has not published any major works in the past year. A Comedy Central representative said she could not comment on why Pinker was chosen as a guest. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno...