The fence along Israel's border with Syria will help to protect Israel. What could go wrong with that?
Barack Obama's foreign policy: "light footprint," lightweight thinking.
Education is the Work of Teachers, not Hackers
WHEN I LOOK BACK at my education, I am struck not by how much I learned but by how much I was taught. I am the progeny of teachers; I swoon over teachers. Even what I learned on my own I owed to them, because they guided me in my sense of what is significant. The only form of knowledge that can be adequately acquired without the help of a teacher, and without the humility of a student, is information, which is the lowest form of knowledge.
Losing Hope on Israeli-Palestinian Peace
LOST CAUSES are not wrong causes, unless winning is the measure of right. The historical victory of an idea reveals nothing about its merit: power has uses for fictions, and the popularity of lies is an ancient feature of human affairs.
