Essays & Criticism

Writing

Essays on Jewish civilization, cultural renewal, education, and the crisis of modern life.

I write about the ideas, habits, institutions, and inheritances that form human beings — and about what happens when those things begin to fall apart.

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Selected Work by Category

Jewish Civilization & Zionism

Essays on Jewish peoplehood, Zionism, antisemitism, October 7, Israel, diaspora life, and the civilizational meaning of Jewish survival.

Education & Formation

Writing on what education is for, how young people are formed, and why reading, memory, rhetoric, discipline, and moral seriousness still matter.

Culture, Masculinity & Modernity

Essays on the spiritual and cultural condition of young people today, especially young men, and the strange moral atmosphere of the internet age.

Selected essays coming soon — browse the archive in the meantime.

Memoir & Generational Reflection

Personal and literary essays about growing up in the 21st century, the losses and absurdities of Gen Z life, and the search for meaning after irony.

Selected essays coming soon — browse the archive in the meantime.

The Zionist Voice

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Much of my public writing appears at The Zionist Voice, my essay project on Jewish and Western civilization. The Zionist Voice argues that Zionism is not merely a political position, but a civilizational one: a defense of Jewish life, historical memory, moral clarity, and the possibility of national renewal.

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Current Project

Book in Progress

Forthcoming

Wasted Youth: An Elegy for My Generation

A memoir and cultural argument about Gen Z, the internet, moral confusion, masculinity, education, faith, and the long search for seriousness in a deranged age.

Publications & Appearances

Where My Work Has Appeared

The Dispatch Future of Jewish Tikvah The Zionist Voice

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