Journal of the Privilege(d): how we make everything about ourselves, even in War times
Since the start of the Ukraine War Westerners have started their own war of words putting themselves in the spotlight. Does our virtue...
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R. V. Blake
Jun 7, 202213 min read
The Dangers of Unsolicited Discourse
The internet is not a good place for high level discourse, especially not on Facebook. Empathy leaves and authoritarianism slips in...
Abarbarak
Dec 6, 20203 min read
The Participation Trophy: An Existential Defense
In recent years, the notion of participation trophies has become a common subject for criticism and even ridicule, many times in service...
Keshet Abulof
Jul 26, 20181 min read
Love At First Site
On this Tu b'Av (the Jewish Day of Love), foreshadowing the lunar eclipse, the rising artist, Keshet Leah Abulof (KLA), kindly agreed to...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20179 min read
Hell is other people(s), but there’s No Exit: On the Return of the Tribe
The triumph of Brexit and Trump is the lazy eye of a perfect storm—populist fears filling expanding cracks in our social contracts. The...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20175 min read
The Liberal Uncanny: Fascism and Freedom at the Heart of Democracy
“I know not what course others may take,” Patrick Henry concluded his speech to the Virginia Convention in 1775, “but as for me, give me...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20175 min read
The Meaning of Life and Death (in Politics)
Irrational! How else can we explain the conducts of Putin, Netanyahu, Maduro, Jammeh, Kim Jong-un, Tsipras and ISIS? But to understand...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20174 min read
Living on the Edge: Israel, ISIS and the West
I had left Jerusalem, my hometown, and Israel, my homeland, before, but this time was more painful, because it was much easier. Two years...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20173 min read
Self-Determination, Redux? Russia's Crimea and the Global Crisis of Legitimacy
The West could have held the upper moral hand in the Crimean crisis, but chose not to. In his annexation speech (March 18, 2014),...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20175 min read
A Rebellious Greengrocer: The Suicide that Kindled the Arab Spring
When the leader of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” and its former president, Vaclav Havel died last month, many eulogies were...
Uriel
Dec 16, 20175 min read
What Is the Arab Third Estate? Nationalism in the Arab Spring
On July 1, 1798, just before disembarking on the shores of Alexandria — in what is often depicted as the moment when the West, indeed ...
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