Monthly Archives: July 2026

How to Talk to a Cat: Buber, Philosophy, and Dialogue with Unspeaking Things (Prepared by and with permission of the author and Indiana University Press) PROMO code below CONTENTS Introduction: Dialogue and the Maintenance of Domestic Bubbles  1. Homes: Domesticity … Continue reading →

Walter Benjamin made the New Angel into an intellectual icon. The Angel Applicant by Paul Klee from 1939 is a different creature with nothing messianic about him. His eyes are downcast and blackened, looking at nothing past his own misery … Continue reading →

TOC + TRANSLATION Netzaḥ Yisrael (1588/1589) by the Maharal of Prague Themed for the fast day of Tisha b’Av is themed on place and time, the world of non-existence, the exile of Israel, and the coming of the Messiah, The … Continue reading →