Wrong side won World War I?
Thursday, October 31, 2024

In the America mind, World War I was a war for democracy. .. read more..

Paul Schrader's Third Act
Friday, October 25, 2024

In this bonus ep for subscribers we lie flat in bed late at night on the edge of sleep as Evgenia talks about seeing Paul Schrader present his latest film — Oh, Canada — at the Woodstock Film Festival. .. read more..

St. Francis of Hollywood
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

A review of "Megalopolis" .. read more..

A rabbi on TikTok
Monday, October 21, 2024

Chose a bad day to shave my beard because I decided to become a rabbi on TikTok…to reach the youth with my light. .. read more..

Winter is coming...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

...everthing is dying. .. read more..

Exiting the art world with Andrew Norman Wilson
Monday, October 14, 2024

We got out of bed to talk to artist and filmmaker Andrew Norman Wilson about his work and his viral essay in the Baffler about the impoverished jet-setting life of an artist without a trust fund. .. read more..

My Yom Kippur atonement
Saturday, October 12, 2024

A look at the sophistry and the selective bullshit moralizing that’s built into the Jewish textual-interpretive tradition. .. read more..

Jews weaponizing Jews
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

...for guns and nukes and power. .. read more..

October 7, 2024
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

We’re back in bed, struggling to stay awake, talking about October 7…one year on. .. read more..

The genocide option
Monday, October 7, 2024

What else can you say? .. read more..

Entry #19: A mysterious source
Friday, October 4, 2024

“If you want to know where Misha went search for thearkmaker.” .. read more..

Entry #18: Nuclear birth and death
Thursday, October 3, 2024

"That silver dome is gone now. It was targeted by multiple missiles in the immediate counterattack." .. read more..

Entry #17: Pogrom in the radiation shelter
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

I was working from home on my computer when news of the nuclear war hit the feed. Israel had launched nuclear ballistic missiles into Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Yemen, the Gulf States… .. read more..

The secular is religious
Monday, September 30, 2024

How can someone be secular when they base their identity and worldview on a religious text? .. read more..

Black Iron Prison
Friday, September 27, 2024

Watch now | We took our podcasting from bed concept to its logical conclusion: Ingmar Bergman’s "Scenes from a Marriage" style video content. .. read more..

Eschatology and denial
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Nationalism as a religious belief. .. read more..

Entry #16: The lying rabbi
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

They were there for two days and nights. Hanging out, praying, sacrificing animals. Basically they were partying together. The asshole had lied to me. .. read more..

Entry #15: A Screaming Woman
Monday, September 23, 2024

It wasn’t North Korea or Iran or even America or Russia or China that went psycho and destroyed the world, it was us. It was the paranoid world that we had created for themselves… .. read more..

Lepers and circumcisions? What is to be done?
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Getting into the legalese of this tricky situation. .. read more..

Mass genital mutilation, the Hebrew god's new kink (aka Genesis 17)
Thursday, September 19, 2024

"The jackals had a feast that night at the trash heap on the edge of Abe’s camp. And Yahweh was pleased. Or was he?" .. read more..