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Bring the Borscht back to the Borscht Belt & Seltzer Museum

Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s on Long Island as a Jewish kid, I was not alone traveling to Sullivan County (an hour or so northwest of NYC) to vacation at the grand resorts – Kutsher’s Country Club, the Nevelle (Ulster County, I know…), the Concord (if those names...

My “Thrill of Psychomachia” published

Psychomachia, or conflict of the soul, is the title of a Latin poem from the early fifth century, a sort of literary Super Smash Bros. of personified virtues and vices. I used the concept as a metaphor to explore the player experience of push your luck games like...

DECEMBER 2021 BJC NEWSLETTER: My Year in Review

This fall I began to send out monthly newsletters about my work across a wide range of fields. If you would like to receive these (about my work, but there are also ones about my two upcoming books), please sign up here. Below is December’s year-end round up. DECEMBER...

Announcing development of new RAND racial equity policy games

I can finally announce my new partnership with the Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy (CAREP) at the RAND Corporation to produce games about racial equity policy. Phew – it was hard keeping this one a secret! What is RAND, you may ask? The RAND Corporation is a...