June 7, 2014

The Bergdahl Exchange -- a Wider Legal View

No government ever has the legal right to free terrorists as a quid pro quo for hostage release.聽Terrorism is a criminally sanctionable violation of international law, one that is never subject to manipulation by individual countries.

August 6, 2011

To Fix a Broken Country: The Critical Limits of American Politics

Both Democrats and Republicans are widely criticized for failing to fix a broken country, but America's core problems are not remediable in politics.

June 26, 2011

Anxiety and Absurdity in the State of Israel

Freud said that no one person is ever truly capable of imagining his own death. Thus with Israel.

June 5, 2011

Israel's Pain -- Beyond Human Language

Our Jewish pain is ultimately incommunicable -- deeply and inextricably rooted in the confining space of each individual body.

May 24, 2011

The Samson Option: 'Palestine' and Israel's Nuclear Strategy

How Israel can best walk the nuclear tightrope.

May 22, 2011

Why Israel Has Become A Not-Quite Tragic Hero

The sordid promise of peace with a persistently genocidal adversary is always a delusion. Protracted war and terror are very bad options for Israel, but, tragically, they are certainly better than death.

May 7, 2011

Slouching Toward Palestine

In September, probably with very little prodding, the U.N. General Assembly will take up the issue of membership for "Palestine."

March 13, 2011

Israel's Future in the 'New Middle East'

For Iran and for an emergent "Palestine," murdered Jews are not so much a means to an end, as a prayed-for end in themselves.

August 22, 2010

The Expanding Horror of Life on Earth

Why, exactly, is it that "we can't get no satisfaction"?