Another week, another assortment of Benjamins Schwartz doing what they do best: voicing hedgehogs, prosecuting murder cases, and appearing in spam listings of questionable provenance. The multiverse theory grows more convincing by the day.
- The New Yorker Publishes Cartoon by Benjamin Schwartz
Our favorite cartoonist strikes again! That’s a pun, but you’ll have to click through to see why. - Ben Schwartz Writes About Amazon’s Abandoned Sam Altman Biopic in The Nation
“Artificial had a roster of premier talent and a topical subject—but it no longer fit in with Jeff Bezos’s financial ambitions.” - Deputy District Attorney Ben Schwartz Calls Doctor’s Killing “An Assassination”
“Deputy District Attorney Ben Schwartz has previously called Hamid Mirshojae’s killing ‘an assassination.'”
A prosecutorial Ben Schwartz is handling a murder case in Woodland Hills, deploying terminology that suggests this is not his first rodeo. One does not casually use the word “assassination” in Los Angeles County. - Same Deputy DA Ben Schwartz to Retry Trader Joe’s Hostage Case
“Deputy District Attorney Ben Schwartz told reporters outside court that Corado’s father ‘requested that we retry him.'”
The same prosecutorial Ben Schwartz returns to retry Gene Evin Atkins following a 2018 incident at a Silver Lake Trader Joe’s. Apparently one Benjamin Schwartz has cornered the market on high-profile Los Angeles criminal cases. - Dr. Ben Schwartz Advises on Bundled Payment Systems
“You’re only as strong as your weakest link, and that…”
A total joint surgeon named Ben Schwartz, now a senior advisor at Commons Clinic in Los Angeles, shares wisdom about bundled payments in orthopedic surgery. The aphorism about weak links feels appropriate for a profession involving literal joints. - Benjamin Schwartz Cited in Academic Paper on Confucianism
“As Benjamin Schwartz pointed out, Confucianism, as a broad cultural and ethical framework, shapes government and daily…”
A scholarly Benjamin Schwartz receives citation in a paper examining the religionization of Confucianism, presumably the late Harvard professor rather than any hedgehog-voicing contemporaries. Academic and entertainment Benjamins Schwartz coexist peacefully. - Ben Schwartz Wrote About Gasoline Alley for The New Yorker in 2015
A 2015 article by Ben Schwartz about Frank King’s comic strip Gasoline Alley gets mentioned in a comic strip history blog. Apparently one of the Benjamins Schwartz has opinions about early 20th-century sequential art, which feels entirely on-brand.
Check back next week for more evidence that “Benjamin Schwartz” is simply what happens when the universe runs low on name combinations.