The lion’s share of the price of peace is paid by the innocent. Hamas in their infinite depravity have temporarily reasserted control across their territory by executing Gazans in the streets; so many that President Trump is now threatening to ‘kill’ Hamas if they don’t stop the killing. The images and videos are extraordinarily graphic, and I do not recommend watching. We all saw enough of this with ISIS—Daesh…

History has moved mountains in the span of six days. Is this the real life? I’ve had such an emotional rollercoaster over the past week (and the past two years) I think I’ve got whiplash. THEY HAVE RETURNED. ALL THE LIVING HOSTAGES HAVE COME HOME. First seven, then thirteen more living hostages have been brought back from the dungeons and the terror tunnels of Hamas. Matan Angrest, Alon Ohel, Guy Gilboa Dalal, Eitan Mor, Ziv Berman and his twin brother Gali Berman, Omri Miran, Bar Kupershtein, Evyatar David, Yosef-Chaim Ohana, Segev Kalfon, Avinatan Or, Elkana Bohbot, Maxim Herkim, Nimrod Cohen, Matan Zangauker, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Rom Braslavski, and Eitan Horn. Each of these names deserves a tribute to their suffering greater than I can give. It is an absolute miracle that they are home safe and in the comfort of their families. May their healing begin as soon as it can, and may they all know only peace for the rest of their lives…

Two years. Two entire years since October 7th, 2023. Has anything stayed the same since that darkest of days in modern history? I said then that it marked a turning point in world history much like the eleventh of September, 2001. Our worlds before and after both dates were irrevocably changed, and changed for the worse. The entire course of my life has taken a different path because of it; and I am far from the only one who has had this experience. We cannot forget the events that catalyzed the troubles of our present. We cannot—we must not—forget October 7th, 2023…

Hello internet. It has again been some time. I come back to you imbued with a new sense of purpose in life. Soon I will have a new season of this podcast out, this time on moral philosophy. But first I wanted to make this special on the most important book of our time: this one right here. Man’s Search for Meaning by Dr. Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, who survived the system of Nazi concentration camps spread across Europe; including within the overarching systems of infamous Auschwitz and Dachau. More than any other, this is the book we must be teaching to every single child in public education. I don’t care what Christian conservatives think; it’s not the Bible, it’s this book. My reasons as to why this book ought to be taught to every child constitute much of the remainder of this special…

My fellow philosophy aficionados may be able to discern from the title that lately I have been reading David Hume—perhaps the greatest Scotsman in history (eat your heart out, William Wallace). Certainly his ideas have been monumentally influential; chief among them being the ‘Is/Ought Problem’ this article references. Hume observed a particularly harsh moral ‘guillotine’ as it’s known having to do with the trouble of deriving an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’, which he elaborates very briefly in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book III Part I Section I: “In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with…I am surprized to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not…For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, it is necessary that it should be observed and explained; and at the same time that a reason should be given, for what seems altogether inconceivable, how this new relation can be a deduction from others, which are entirely different from it…”

Today is September 13th, 2025. Two days ago was the 24th anniversary of 9/11. A day before that, on September 10th, 2025, Charlie Kirk was politically assassinated at a speaking event on a college campus in Utah. Charlie was a conservative political organizer instrumental in the Trump presidential campaigns and a co-founder of Turning Point USA; and he did it all despite being only a couple years older than myself. At the time of his death, there is little doubt he was one of the most influential voices in modern America. He leaves behind a wife, Erika, and two young children. Tragedy does not begin to describe it…

Hello, my dear fellowship. It’s been some time. You may have noticed my extended absence since the last I wrote to you. Or perhaps you had forgotten all about this publication. Either way: as I gave no forewarning as to my going away, I at least owe an explanation.

The explanation is that I have been on a journey of self-discovery. If that sounds vague, it’s because it is. Sorry, but I am still on said journey, and I cannot yet reveal my destination. Truthfully, I cannot even say for certain where I will ultimately end up. I am changed already, as you will find out if you read on…

Ben Gvir is an extremist. Hardly anyone in Israel actually likes this tool. And I’ll tell you why: for moderate Israelis on both the left and the right, disengagement policies have actually been extremely popular. It was the promise to withdraw from something like ninety percent of Judea and Samaria that won the right-wing Olmert government its mandate in 2006. This is after Israel leaves Gaza to Hamas and Lebanon to Hezbollah. Despite experiencing over one hundred suicide bombings over the course of the Second Intifada, Israelis in 2006 by and large still wanted to disengage and leave; if only that would finally bring them peace…

Today’s newsletter is more letter than news. I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of our present moment. It can be hard to step outside of it and to see the passing of time as it affects every atom in the universe. As surely as the sun rises, time will catch up to all of us in the end. Many speculate about what comes after from a personal standpoint; from the perspective of one’s own consciousness and actual experience of dying. Does it all fade to black, and then nothingness? Is there something that comes after, whether heaven or hell or rebirth or reincarnation or something else entirely?…

Tucker, Tucker, Tucker. Just when I thought you couldn’t possibly sink any lower, you go and grab a shovel. Why does everyone insist on disgracing themselves by wearing the ugliest attire of antisemitism and then head-to-floor bowing before ‘King Terrorist Khamenei’? To not only side with the Islamic Republic against Israel, but to also explicitly side with them against America…

For the life of me I cannot understand humanity. I have spent the better part of a decade studying ourselves; yet, our capacity for human stupidity continually blows me away.

On the war front, Hamas is still firing rockets at Israeli civilians. Still firing rockets. At Israeli civilians. STILL FIRING ROCKETS AT ISRAELI CIVILIANS. And still holding dozens of hostages in brutally inhumane conditions. Where is the condemnation of the world for these blatant war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by genocidal terrorists? Where is the demand for the release of the hostages? Anyone? Bueller? Oh wait, the world is too busy siding WITH THE TERRORISTS…

Shame upon Humanity for ignoring the suffering of the Palestinians living under the unbelievably brutal, authoritarian, fascist, and religious fundamentalist rule of Hamas. It only took one election for Gaza to never have elections again. When Hamas rose to power after the total Israeli withdrawal in 2005 (so much for the “occupation” rhetoric—but we know they were never talking about Gaza), they quickly got to work throwing their political rivals off roofs, as well as murdering other “undesirables” like anyone suspected of being LGBTQ. And now they are murdering more Gazan civilians after torturing them first, for the simple “crime” of having protested against Hamas in the past week…

The world hates Israel. This is not new information. I have used that line before, and every time it rings just as true. The world cannot understand reality in the Jewish nation, because it does not want to understand. We all know why this is so; it is not an accident that the most divisive foreign policy issue across literally the entire world just happens to concern the only Jewish state in that world. Even Israel’s most fervent haters must at times realize they give far too much credit to the relatively small nation. At just over ten million people and approximately the size of New Jersey, they are the smallest (alleged) nuclear power in our world. They do not have the manpower to wage war like Russia, nor even like Ukraine…

There is a debate that has been raging in Israel for well over five hundred days. It is not a new debate; if you read my article on Gilad Shalit, you ought to know that taking hostages is a trademark move of Hamas. Yahya Sinwar, the architect of October 7th and now a decomposing disgrace to humanity was one of the over one thousand convicted terrorists that were released in the Gilad Shalit hostage deal in 2011. What Hamas learned from this is that hostage-taking is a very lucrative and efficient way to maximize their own strength relative to the indomitable strength of the Israeli people. Because Israelis refuse to leave their own behind, no matter the cost…

The persecution of a religious and cultural minority. The intentional massacre of hundreds of civilians in cold blood. The Alawites of Syria are under siege by the Islamists that drove out former President Bashar al-Assad, with their very lives in danger as you read these words. And not a single human being in the wider world cares enough to make their plight a front-page headline; because, as has been proven time and again, “No Jews, no news.” If the world cannot find some way to blame it on Israelis/Jews, the world will either find a way anyway or simply ignore the suffering of their fellow humanity. The Uighurs say hello, by the way. Remember them? No?…

Why do we fight so hard to save a world that is patently unworthy of being saved? A world where injustice is the rule, not the exception? Justify your existence, humanity, when as far as we know all of the worst moral atrocities in history have all been committed by members of the human race. What makes us worthy of even the attempt to save us from damnation…

There is little doubt this has been the hardest week since the immediate aftermath of October 7th, 2023. The revelations that have come to light with the return of the bodies of Kfir, Ariel, Oded, and eventually Shiri are so shocking to the conscience that you would have to be a monster yourself to not be moved by them. We are living in a world where Hamas executed six Israeli hostages in cold blood after starving them near to death already; yet, somehow, Hamas has topped their unending capacity for evil yet again…

Another shorter letter today; I’m having car troubles of all things and need to take it into the shop relatively early. Five hundred days since October 7th, 2023. It may as well have been yesterday for all the time it’s felt like. At the same time, things are moving so quickly now that I genuinely cannot keep up anymore…

This may be the most controversial letter I’ve written yet—and that’s really saying something. Historical facts should not be controversial; but such are the times we live in. There is a man of history who was a close ally of Hitler. A despicable human being that wanted to achieve the extermination of Jews in the territory he came from. A man that led the Nazi propaganda campaign across the Middle East and North Africa to convince Arabs to side with the Axis and rise up to “slaughter the Jews”. And even after the Nazis were defeated, he never stopped trying to exterminate the Jews of Israel…

Well, that was certainly a week. There are years when weeks happen…this was a week where years happened. The title of this letter is somewhat ironic, but also a fairly accurate observation of history between any two randomly-chosen points in the timeline. The Middle East changes all the time, is what I’m saying. Some things, however, are here to stay. Israel is here to stay. Those who side with Israel are also likely here to stay: Bahrain and the UAE for example, courtesy of the Abraham Accords. I wonder who else would like to join about now…