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ESSAYS

She also writes.

Essays on politics, culture and the people in between. Fiction lives here too, when it arrives.

pseudo-philosophical, proudly

longer thoughts

July 23, 2026

The Stories Stopped Fitting - So What Now?

or: things Jung never said to women turning forty

December 3, 2025

The Things a Liberal Democracy Cannot Live With (Part III)

What We're Actually Defending and Why Do I even care?

November 25, 2025

The Things a Liberal Democracy Cannot Live With (Part II)

On Tolerance, Boundaries, and Why "Live and Let Live" Is, Unfortunately, Just Not a Sustainable Way to Build Our Future

November 23, 2025

The Things a Liberal Democracy Cannot Live With (Part I)

Why I Walked Away from the PhD and Stayed Stubbornly Liberal, Even as Liberal Democracy Looks More Like a Brand Than a Promise

September 25, 2025

Atonement, Forgiveness, and the Other Side of Things

How a play about a single punch made me think about Yom Kippur, letting go, and the conflicts that define us

April 4, 2025

The Mirror We Fear

Why Our Obsession with Adolescence Reveals More About Us Than About Teenagers

October 14, 2024

Letting Ships Sink

Reflections on The Vegetarian and Lady Into Fox: real freedom comes when we stop fighting the inevitable and embrace transformation.

October 8, 2024

When Day Meets Night

Lessons from Magritte's Twilight Sky: how light and dark, destruction and renewal, always seem to be tangled together

October 6, 2024

The Fog of October 7th

Choosing Sides in a Complex World: even when the world isn't black and white, there are moments when we must draw the line.

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