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Mordechai Sones
The Unowned Nation of Tenants
In 1948, as the State of Israel was forged in the crucible of war, the American philosopher Richard M. Weaver…
Totalitarian Israeli Democracy in the Age of Reason
Imagine transporting two thinkers from the past to the corridors of the Israeli Knesset. One is Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th-century…
Pita on Pesach: When Jewish Identity Dies, Jewish Blood Is Spilled
In the first part of this series, we established a foundational principle for survival: A is A. Drawing on sources…
A is A: Torah, Aristotle, and the Limits of Judging Enemies Favorably
After an Arab worker was recorded contaminating ice cream for Jewish customers, I commented that I always wondered about the…
The Manufactured Measles Crisis: How Vaccine Campaigns Ignite Outbreaks from Texas to Tel Aviv
In the summer of 2025, a specter returned to haunt the Western world. Measles, a disease declared vanquished from the…
Justice, Justice You Shall Automate?
The Torah portion of Shoftim contains one of the most foundational injunctions in Jewish jurisprudence: “צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף” – “Justice,…
Idols of Excess: How Cheap Obscenity and Hyperbole Are Breeding a Violent, Soulless Society
The Age of Absurdity Something is broken in the way we talk, think, and feel. It is a subtle fracture,…
From Baseless Hatred to a World at War: Reversing Tisha B’Av
A Shot Heard Across Time It began, as world-changing events sometimes do, with a single act of violence on an…
The Individual and the State: A Shift in Power and Responsibility
Historically, the classical liberal view of government was one of cautious distrust. Its role was not to provide for the…
The Tyranny of Tolerance: How an Enlightenment Error Is Tearing Israel Apart
A recent, thoughtful critique of the idea of a "Jewish Compassion Deficit Syndrome" raised a crucial point about the pragmatic…