Refusing to Simplify. Luis de Carvajal and the Courage of Both/And

Luis de Carvajal the Younger’s story, 400+ years old, is not a story about the past; it is a story about the present — about the violence of either/or and the courage of both/and; and within it is a vital roadmap for the Jews of today.

We live in a moment of growing tribalism and deep anxiety, when identity is often (and diminishingly) reduced to singularity: pick a side, be one thing, simplify yourself. Luis de Carvajal the Younger’s story is 400+ years old but just as timely and urgent today as it was then. It is a story about the violence of either/or and the courage of both/and.

Todd Kliman is a prize-winning author, essayist, cultural critic, and food writer. He has won two James Beard Awards, including a 2016 MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for his autobiography in seven meals, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Oxford American, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post Magazine, and NPR online, among others. He has taught literature and writing at American University and Howard University. 

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