Essays & Articles
Writing
Essays examining how words carry assumptions, how inherited categories guide judgment, and how people learn to see the structures organizing how they think and act.
When explaining becomes defending
What changes when I need you to agree before I can believe you understood me?
The apology before the disagreement
What are we apologizing for when we have not yet said what we think?
What happens when nobody fills the silence
The quiet may be shared. What each person experiences in it may be very different.
The Written and Spoken Word
The need to establish a common vocabulary. The limitations of words and language to describe phenomenon and lived experience.
The Nounification of English
How English turns processes into things. The trouble began when we turned an adjective into a noun.
Turning Toward the Pain
Chavivin Yisurin — beloved suffering. The cannon's call. The unconventional attitude of moving toward the problem.
Names, Soul, and Self
Maimonides on equivocal names. Be careful with the names for the soul, because it is easy to get confused. What is even meant by self.
One Soul to Another
The word is the only way for one soul to contact another. Every relationship is first a language problem.
Learning Vehicles
The two practices through which all the writing was learned. Not content, but method.
Emes: Translation Not Truth
Access the preserved earlier public excerpt of Emes: Translation Not Truth by Elie Schulman, with its current manuscript status clearly identified.