What Jay Thinks

Feb 28, 2024

The Palestine Collection: A Speech for the Future

Feb 28, 2024

Defining Zionism, Israel, and Judaism and a speech for a future Israeli Prime Minister.

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Feb 28, 2024

Feb 23, 2024

The Palestine Collection: Changing Your Mind - Miko Peled

Feb 23, 2024

The story of Miko Peled’s journey from the son of a Zionist general to a Palestinian Cause Activist.

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Feb 23, 2024

The Palestine Collection: Resistance or Terror - Richard English

Feb 23, 2024

A conversation with the author who dares to ask the question “does terrorism work?”

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Feb 23, 2024

The Palestine Collection: '48 Never Ended - Gideon Levy

Feb 23, 2024

A conversation with Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy where we take the pulse of Israel and discuss how he came to question the Zionist project and where we might go from here.

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Feb 23, 2024

The Palestine Collection: Palestine and the Problem of History

Feb 23, 2024

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Feb 23, 2024

Oct 25, 2023

Antisemitism and the Future of Analysis

Oct 25, 2023

A personal essay on Judaism, Israel, NeverAgainIsm, and Palestine. Written during the siege of Gaza in response to the October 7th attacks.

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Oct 25, 2023

Oct 19, 2023

Israel and Palestine - The Malevolent Machinery

Oct 19, 2023

The morality of intentions and self-deceptions in the Israel Palestinian conflict. A look at the moral distinction between collateral damage, intentional civilian targeting, and something much more common and psychologically complex which the Jewish experience makes Israel particularly suspectable to.

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Oct 19, 2023

Dec 16, 2022

Drop the Knife: Policing the Unpoliceable

Dec 16, 2022

A look at a lot of bodycam footage of police shootings that reveal what no spreadsheet could… and several thoughts about the awful impossible situation.

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Dec 16, 2022

Nov 18, 2022

The Human Capacity - An Essay from the Writer of The Essential Sam Harris

Nov 18, 2022

An essay from the author of The Essential Sam Harris.

An effort to emphasize and expose a subsequent confusion that can result from noticing the non existence of Free Will.

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Nov 18, 2022

Apr 21, 2021

Who Gets to Wear the Hat?: Replacement and Representation

Apr 21, 2021

The convergence of replaceability without risking safety and social roles of high status is happening everywhere around us and it is unleashing an obsession with low-stakes representation lever grabbing to address past injustices. But it is also arming a trigger happy public just waiting to yank you from your seat if you so much as whisper the wrong sentence.

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Apr 21, 2021

Mar 8, 2021

It's a Woke Life

Mar 8, 2021

I want to be careful with the primary analogy of this essay to not cast Wokeness as “just a bunch of 6 year olds throwing temper tantrums”. The injustices they are reacting to are obviously much more real and complex than Anthony’s weird aversion to air conditioning and barking dogs. Thus far, I have been focused on the powerful dynamic of Cancel Culture and the resulting pseudo-hostage situation in Peaksville that mirrors our current politics.

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Mar 8, 2021

Jan 29, 2021

Be Careful in the Dark

Jan 29, 2021

None of us are immune to what I am about to speculate about other people. And none of us are clean. The failures of the figures in ashes of the IDW are important because they are relatable.

If we want the effort to be about truth-seeking, the truths of our weaknesses and psychological blind spots are probably the most important truths to examine collectively.

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Jan 29, 2021

Jan 23, 2021

Welcome to The Counterfeit Times

Jan 23, 2021

“If it looks like news and it’s all over the news, it’s probably legit.”

This is an instinctual shortcut in an open society that we’ve all been using to navigate the media landscape for hundreds of years. It has served us fairly well. But those days are done.

Welcome to The Counterfeit Times.

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Jan 23, 2021

Jun 24, 2020

Police Violence and Race: Why the Data Matters and Why it Doesn’t

Jun 24, 2020

An essay published by Areo responding to the Black Lives Matter protests after George Floyd’s death.

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Jun 24, 2020

May 12, 2020

Two Burgers on a Plate: When the Only Difference is Death

May 12, 2020

The only difference is that one burger came from a living cow while the other was constructed from plant matter.

What is the best argument for eating the cow burger over the alternative?

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May 12, 2020

Apr 3, 2020

Atheism and a Life Worth Imitating

Apr 3, 2020

If there is sadness in beautiful things let us not fool ourselves into thinking otherwise. It is only the heavy burden of time running out in just how beautiful this life outside the garden could be if we are brave enough.

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Apr 3, 2020

Mar 24, 2020

Live Free and Kill Grandma?

Mar 24, 2020

Through technological advancement, we have transcended the evolved invisibility of an asymptomatic host and concurrently exposed the moral responsibility which accompanies it.

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Mar 24, 2020

Mar 2, 2020

It’s the Implications We Fear

Mar 2, 2020

All men are created equal.
All men are not created with equal qualities, abilities, desires, opportunities, impulses, biases, environments, and instincts.

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Mar 2, 2020

Dec 30, 2019

The Criticizing Freedom Series: Part 1 - Food First, Philosophy Later

Dec 30, 2019

The concern is that the same system which helped us get to this asking point may now actually distract us from answering it.

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Dec 30, 2019

Dec 14, 2019

From “Is” to “Us” the Words that Define Impeachments

Dec 14, 2019

I, like nearly everyone, can forecast how the Trump impeachment story will unfold in terms of votes and party lines. But what is harder to predict is what moment may come to define this entire thing.

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Dec 14, 2019