Archive - What Is Called Thinking?

Two Ways Israel Disappears: Assimilation and Sectarianism

The Political Theology of Judges

Jun 18 • Zohar Atkins

What's Your Edge?

Opinion is the only trade that never gets a margin call. In a market the bill always comes; in politics it never does.

Jun 9 • Zohar Atkins

Data as the New Astrology

Jeremiah's Critique of Fatalism

Jun 8 • Zohar Atkins

Tell Him That We Are Coming

On Vengeance as a Biblical Virtue

Jun 7 • Zohar Atkins

May 2026

The Letter and the Hand

Mysticism and the Visual Philosophy of Language

May 21 • Zohar Atkins

The Heap of Witness

Walter Benjamin and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev on Translation

May 11 • Zohar Atkins

Like the Size of an Olive

Maimonides and Heidegger on the Evolution of Measurement

May 3 • Zohar Atkins

April 2026

Be not like servants who attend their master on condition of receiving a gift; be like servants who attend their master not on condition of receiving a…

Published on Second Voice • Apr 29

Should Extra-Terrestrial Life Make A Theological Difference?

From Deborah's Song to Elon Musk

Apr 23 • Zohar Atkins

The Talmud's Bet

From Tulip Mania to Prediction Markets

Apr 15 • Zohar Atkins

What Antisemites Get Right and Wrong About Jewish Success

How Medieval Jews Turned a Political Curse into an Economic Blessing and Took Europe out of the Dark Ages

Apr 10 • Zohar Atkins

March 2026

A Fact-Based Feeling

Are Moods the Subtle Lever of Divine Providence?

Mar 29 • Zohar Atkins