The First Cut

June 28 is our world’s birthday. Let's celebrate with a bit of food for thought, discovering what this birthday cake is layered with.

Jun 29, 20249 min read

The Blonde in the Brush

on the road’s median, a fence to his side, a mighty wall of bushes behind and a thin row of trees ahead, walking toward the asphalt’s zebra

Jun 23, 20243 min read

Do we lie because we’re weak – or are weak because we're lying? If Israel is a modern Golem, it risks dying by killing truth.

Jun 12, 20245 min read

We risk substituting one flawed and fatal moral maxim with another: “might makes right,” with “the strong is wrong."

Jun 5, 20246 min read

The custodians of Enlightenment increasingly betray its maxim, “Dare to Know!” The Clotting of the Academic Mind, Part I

Apr 22, 202410 min read

I make my way out of my apartment building with Roscoe, my German Shepherd, in tow. It’s 2 in the morning, and the street is empty and...

Mar 25, 20248 min read

מה קרה לבגתן ותרש? הסיפור האמיתי מאחורי מגילת אסתר The real story of the two courtiers, Bigthan and Teresh, in an existentialist Purim play

Mar 24, 202415 min read

Netanyahu-Hamas tacit alliance has been one of the most politically successful and humanely disastrous enterprises of the Middle East

Jan 16, 202417 min read

In the wake of the to the 10/7 massacre and the ensuing war, how should we define, identify and defeat evil?

Jan 14, 20248 min read