I’m continuing my monthly series reflecting on my reading list throughout 2022. This entry will cover the reading I managed to get done in July 2022, including Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Margaret Atwood’s Dancing Girls and Other Stories, and a fascinating philosophical work entitled Schopenhauer & Nietzsche…

Living in the Age of Information can be an overwhelming experience. Every day has the potential to flood our lives with new information about current affairs, cultural experiences, and the lives of the individuals within our social networks, physical or digital. Every new piece of information must be evaluated and…

It was just two years ago when educators were being hailed as heroes for stepping up to the challenge of distance learning during the initial peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic. This effort was in addition to the already Herculean effort given by teachers every school year, and I’m not just…

One of the highest compliments any book can receive is being described as a page-turner. It is a sign that the reader’s attention has been fully captured, that the imaginative portions of our minds have been stimulated, and that a drive to finish the story has been activated. The compulsion…

I’m continuing my monthly series reflecting on my reading list throughout 2022. This entry will cover the reading I managed to get done in June 2022, including a few re-reads of Philo for a massive article on allegorical interpretation and an amazing book of essays by Ursula K Le Guin…

Somewhere between 20 BCE and 10 BCE, a man named Philo was born to a noble Jewish family in Alexandria. He was raised and educated in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the known world and lived through the horrific rise of European Antisemitism during the Roman Empire, culminating…

Everyone wants to be forgiven for something in their lives. Only the most arrogant or pious among us would claim to not need forgiveness for some transgression in their lives. But when white people seek redemption for other white people, particularly those who have structurally or individually racist histories, what…

Good morning, Citizens! Thank you for joining us today for our most important duty as citizens: voting. We have a lot of work to do between now and the end of the day, when we must absolutely conclude all legitimate voting and tally the results as fast as possible. Fortunately…

I’m continuing my monthly series reflecting on my reading list throughout 2022. This entry for May 2022 will cover the reading I managed to get done, including the long-awaited end of my full reading of Philo. …