The Question They Cannot Answer
How and why I opened a very ugly can of worms
CultureLife
Listening to the Sirens.
Russ Roberts on life in Israel during and after October 7.
Recent essays
21 of 21Will We Ever Learn?
Why history rhymes
A Perfect Day
Ceasefire in Jerusalem
Patience
An update four weeks into the war
Eulogy For My Mother
Shirley Roberts was born in Memphis Tennessee on November 11, 1932.
Chabad and the War with Iran?
What you should know that Tucker Carlson doesn't
The Head of the Snake
Life in Israel during the Second Iran War
What Should Jews Do?
Further Thoughts on the Pattern
The Pattern
What They Say About the Jews
Aristotle, Shalem College, and Me
Why I enjoy fundraising
Taking Stock of Grok
A chatbot goes out on a limb
The Shape We're In
A friend of mine who I haven’t seen for many months is here in Jerusalem for a wedding.
Want to Get Away? Don’t Count on It
My wife and I did not experience anything like the trauma of war that soldiers in Gaza do, or that Gazans experience, or what the people of Iran must have felt when night after night, day after day, the skies were totally controlled by the Israeli Air Force.
I underestimated him
More than once. A lesson in self-reckoning
And then what?
Thinking beyond stage one
Even Better
Here in Jerusalem it’s Sunday morning.
Sitting in the front row
Last week my wife and I went to see a production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Jerusalem Theater.
Can You Cancel a Country?
Settler Colonialism and the Effort to Erase the Jewish State
The New Normal
Reflections on the start of a new school year
A Voice is Heard on High
I had the privilege of hearing the remarkable Rachel Goldberg-Polin speak on day 88 of the abduction of her son, Hersh.
Remnants
I've just returned from a few days in Prague, my first time there.