Author: Rafael Baroch

Rafael Baroch is a human rights jurist and legal philosopher who has published opinion pieces in various Dutch newspapers. A radical thinker with a philosophical edge, a sharp-witted columnist, and a relentless critic of the status quo.
Rafael Baroch01/09/2025

ESSAY: Notes from inside the Pyramid of Care

We were promised care. Not love, not freedom, not even happiness – just care—a modest […]
Rafael Baroch21/08/2025

ESSAY: The contract we never signed

Let’s be honest - if there was a contract, we didn’t read it. Not because […]
Rafael Baroch09/08/2025

Power, Freedom, and the Monopoly of the Victorious Ideology

Recently, I watched the extraordinary television series Mussolini: The Son of the Century. Its echoes […]
Rafael Baroch10/06/2025

The Bureaucracy of Despair

Ever since Grotius argued that war could be governed by reason, the project of “civilising […]
Rafael Baroch05/05/2025

The Politics of Mourning

We remember, therefore we exist. It’s what we tell ourselves to make the unbearable bearable—to […]
Rafael Baroch08/04/2025

Civilisation and its Discontents

Sigmund Freud once observed that a civilisation is built upon the suppression of instinctual drives. One […]
Rafael Baroch03/04/2025

Anora: The Myth of Freedom in a World of Transactions

Some films are misinterpreted—not because they are difficult to understand, but because the truth they […]
Rafael Baroch19/03/2025

Democracy Unmasked: Trump and the Return of the Sovereign

There is something unsatisfying about the way we talk about democracy. We treat it as […]
Rafael Baroch02/03/2025

Yaha Sinwar: the spectacle and the illusion of struggle

Somewhere in a nearly collapsed room where walls were riddled with cracks and rubble piled […]
Rafael Baroch04/02/2025

Martyrdom: The aesthetics of death

A man blows himself up in a crowded shopping street. In the ensuing chaos, people […]
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