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Uriel
Jan 26, 20186 min read
Nevo: What’s in a Name?
Today, on Nevo’s eleventh birthday, I thought it might be fitting to celebrate on Sapienism, by writing a bit about his name – and trying...


Uriel
Jan 24, 20187 min read
"Carol": Eyes Shut or Wide Open?
Haynes’s 2015 film Carol makes a case for love against all odds – but is that love blind? Movie reviews are as old as cinema itself – for...


Uriel
Jan 17, 20184 min read
The Music of Choice
Is music our mirror? Sometimes, music is meaning-making – helping us discover what, and whom, we love, and who we are. “Nashe understood...


Uriel
Dec 25, 201712 min read
The Cat Killed Curiosity?
In a war between the sexes, the main casualty is our humanity. “Cat Person” is a relatable short story, but it risks taking curiosity,...


Uriel
Dec 15, 20173 min read
On Monsters and Humans
Salma Hayek’s NYT piece, Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too, is terrifyingly moving, and inspiring. It also made me wonder about the...


pushpanjalid
Nov 24, 20232 min read
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...


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...
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