I stand with Israel.How much time should Israel take to lay waste to the perpetrators of the recent terrorist attacks? About as long as you’d like to have if it were your child that had been brutally massacred and proudly displayed on television.However, am I suggesting that the Palestinian ...
In normal times domestic political fights over foreign policy break down more or less along a conventional left-right divide. These are not normal times. The right is largely united around the need to support Israel in its war with Hamas, but increasingly divided about backing Ukraine in its ...
Alexander Pope’s old saying that “a little learning is a dangerous thing” is still brilliant. He might have added, if it existed at the time, especially when it comes from talk radio.Talk radio is particularly unhelpful at times like this, when emotions are so high due to the horror of ...
Reality and delusion are the terms used to describe two contrasting aspects of human perception and cognition, and they may be at the root of most of the challenges we face as a species today.What’s real and what’s not?When we analyze the meaning of reality, we are referring to the state of ...
Fifty years ago, a secret deal among Arab governments triggered one of the most traumatic economic crises to afflict the United States and other big oil importers.Saudi King Faisal and other Arab leaders launched an oil embargo on Oct. 17, 1973, as payback for Washington, D.C., siding with ...
It was fun while it lasted. It was also probably inevitable that someone would hack 23andMe and steal our most cherished data: our DNA.Like most of the 14 million other Americans who surrendered their saliva for DNA evaluation with 23andMe, I was mostly curious to find out whether I had any ...
