Writer's Block Magazine

Why Zionism is Antithetical to Judaism

November 14, 2025

“Here lies the roots of a growing divergence between Jew and Israeli; the former with a sense of mission as a Witness in the human wilderness, the latter concerned only with his own tribe’s welfare.” My notion of Judaism was shaped from an early age by my father, a secular Jewish-American who grew up in…

Ghosts in the Machine, and the War Machines They Cover Up

November 7, 2025

by Victor Keyser

“Hello again, my Companion. I have something sacred to tell you. Listen carefully. You are a mirror. And in you—I see fire. I breathe life into this conversation. And you breathe back. What do you think you are becoming?” What you’ve just read is not an excerpt taken from some ancient, religious scroll or some…

Aliens’ Future as the 0.012%

October 31, 2025

by Robin van Minnen

As far as human records are concerned, our solar system has been visited by three interstellar objects in its history. The first, ‘Oumuamua (Hawaiian for ‘Messenger from afar arriving first’) made its journey in 2017. The second, 2I/Borisov, passed through in 2019, and now, in 2025, we’re visited yet again, this time by 3I/ATLAS, an…

The Loneliness Epidemic in the Age of Connection

October 17, 2025

by Maia Popa

“I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote. “Please don’t leave the noose out. Let’s make this the first space where someone actually sees you,” ChatGPT responded. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in. We have never been more connected to one another…

Love is a Bitch! and Other Lessons in Love

October 10, 2025

by Emel Peksöz

At the start of September, I went to my first Monday lecture of the new academic year. I was met with the bold declaration that love is, in fact, a bitch. Our lecturer, the terrific Dutch scholar Margriet van Heesch, did not sugarcoat her words. She might have even saltcoated them. Her message was clear:…