Education

“I realized something important. Education isn’t only about math and reading. It’s about belonging to a community that draws its strength from shared beliefs. This is something the Haredi world understands deeply—and something our broader culture has largely...

Human Design

“If you were given all the parts of a human body—heart, brain, skeleton, muscles, stomach, intestines, liver, brain, skin, and so on—could you assemble the parts in their correct locations? And if you could, and if you could suture and attach them all properly...

Autocracies

“In the short to medium term, the techno-autocracies often did well. Louis XIV, Napoleon, imperial Germany, Hitler, Tojo and Stalin all had some good years. But time and again the poisonous isolation that absolute power imposes on its wielders blunted the edge of...

Mishaps

“Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” – James Russell Lowell

Community Morals

“Tim Keller gave a thought experiment I find helpful here. Imagine a man who has two strong desires: the first desire is to have sex with men. The second desire is to kill men. If that man is born in Manhattan, his friends, family, and therapists will tell him one of...