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Star Trek Indulgences for Self-Made Purgatories

Moments When Men Get to Feel

2 hrs ago • Thomas P. Balazs

Love on the Final Frontier

What I Learned from the Relationships in Star Trek TNG

Published on The Inner Light • Mar 8

I'm Kind of Ashamed of This Photo

Me and G.R.R. Martin

Mar 1 • Thomas P. Balazs

Coming Back to Faith at Forty

Those Who Return

Jan 19 • Thomas P. Balazs

Two or Three God-Sized Copes

Libertarian Nihilism, Liberal Wish-Casting, and Embracing Limits

Dec 31, 2025 • Thomas P. Balazs

Not All Heroes Wear Shtreimels

Chabad on the Front Line

Dec 19, 2025 • Thomas P. Balazs

I Didn't Have the Heart to Sacrifice Beauty for the Torah

Though I get the rationale

Dec 14, 2025 • Thomas P. Balazs

Tree Candles: a short story

A father-son tale tinged by the uncanny

Dec 7, 2025 • Thomas P. Balazs

When A Book Calls Out To You

You'll Know It's the Real Thing

Nov 30, 2025 • Thomas P. Balazs

And So This Is Christmas

The Thanksgiving Eve Essay That Got Me Writing Essays

Nov 26, 2025 • Thomas P. Balazs

Of Bugs and Beer

A Rant on the Most Recent Tightening of the Kosher Noose

Nov 19, 2025 • Thomas P. Balazs

They're Either Liars or Lizard People

Matt Walsh, Megyn Kelley, Michael Knowles et al are lying to themselves or us

Nov 5, 2025 • Thomas P. Balazs

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Perplexed Jew

Perplexed Jew

Writer, English professor, late-life dad. Second-generation Holocaust survivor raised as a Christian, living as a Jew, dabbling in religion, philosophy, politics, and culture.

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