PinnedDavid BaumgartenLetter to IsraelDear Prime Minister Netanyahu and Honorable Members of the Cabinet,Dec 1, 202321Dec 1, 202321
PinnedDavid BaumgartenA Call for Middle East Peace to Commence: If Only I Were PresidentPhoto by Tyler Nix on UnsplashNov 7, 2023Nov 7, 2023
PinnedDavid BaumgartenRedefining ‘Never Again’: Uniting Humanity Through the Jewish NarrativeOct 30, 20231Oct 30, 20231
PinnedDavid BaumgartenYom Kippur’s Soliloquy - 5784 (2023)A monarch flits by DragonFly Pond’s verdant banks today, Autumn’s Joe Pye and Aster, a cloak of early fall, and blushèd sourwood trees.Sep 26, 202322Sep 26, 202322
PinnedDavid BaumgartenHeading into Collapse: How to Handle TEOTWAWKIThank you for giving me these moments to share my thoughts about food scarcity, climate change, the survival of the human species, and what…Jul 24, 202329Jul 24, 202329
David BaumgartenAre We Sleep-Marching toward Global Authoritarianism?In an age when the rhetoric of global cooperation and human rights dominates international dialogue, deeper scrutiny reveals troubling…Sep 25Sep 25
David BaumgartenSpores of Defiance — Our Resilience in a World of CollapseLately, in the face of relentless global crises, from the devastation in Gaza, where civilians are murdered in cold blood, to U.S. funding…Sep 17Sep 17
David BaumgartenElections, Illusions, and a Nation Not Yet Desperate Enough to RevoltI watched the Harris / Trump debates, and it was nothing short of a debacle. It’s disheartening to think that these two candidates — so…Sep 13Sep 13
David BaumgartenThe Quiet DisquietThere is a curious solitude in my strength, as though the world assumes that my steadfast soul, unshaken by the wind, or flood, or drought…Sep 121Sep 121
David BaumgartenThe Grotesque Theater of U.S. Democracy and Its Role in Supporting GenocideI couldn’t bear to watch it’s entirety, fellow citizens.Sep 10Sep 10