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Unconditional Surrender
We all want to be loved? I’ve learned enough of life and love to suspect exceptions, but Trump, I realized this weekend, is not among them.
Uriel
Jul 21, 20243 min read


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.
Uriel
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
Oven Foluba
Jun 23, 20243 min read


The Golem of Jerusalem
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.
Uriel
Jun 12, 20245 min read


Be Violent!
We risk substituting one flawed and fatal moral maxim with another: “might makes right,” with “the strong is wrong."
Uriel
Jun 5, 20246 min read


Let’s Face Us
The custodians of Enlightenment increasingly betray its maxim, “Dare to Know!” The Clotting of the Academic Mind, Part I
Uriel
Apr 22, 202410 min read

Jungle Dispatch: Grandiosity and Insecurity in Yonatan Netanyahu’s letters
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...
Phoebe Bruce
Mar 25, 20248 min read


Bigthan and Teresh Are Dead | בגתן ותרש מתים
מה קרה לבגתן ותרש? הסיפור האמיתי מאחורי מגילת אסתר
The real story of the two courtiers, Bigthan and Teresh, in an existentialist Purim play
Uriel
Mar 24, 202415 min read


Netanyahu-Hamas: The Holy Land’s Unholy Alliance
Netanyahu-Hamas tacit alliance has been one of the most politically successful and humanely disastrous enterprises of the Middle East
Uriel
Jan 16, 202417 min read


Facing Evil
In the wake of the to the 10/7 massacre and the ensuing war, how should we define, identify and defeat evil?
Uriel
Jan 14, 20248 min read


Sapienism Celebrates its Sixth Anniversary!
2023 - that “worst year ever” - made Sapienism all the more valuable, at times invaluable, to me.
Uriel
Jan 1, 20244 min read


Journal of the Privilege(d): How we make everything about ourselves, even in War Times
I live in Italy. I have been raised in Italy. Unlike my grandmothers I have only known Democracy and Peace. What I believed to be a...
pushpanjalid
Dec 24, 20232 min read
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