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 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 […]
Rafael Baroch21/01/2025

Beyond modern nihilism: tradition, progress, and the search for meaning

According to political theorist Wendy Brown, in her book Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber, […]
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