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What will it take to wake Jews up?

The citizens of San Francisco will be voting on a proposition that seeks to ban circumcision in that city. Though I am strongly opposed to the proposition, if it passes,...

Ingratitude, thy name is South Korea

SOUTH Korea has joined with only two other countries in the world in dropping the name of the forthcoming film “Captain America” and using the subtitle, “The First...

Are the Jews the chosen people?

I ASSUME that the type of person who reads columns such as this has wondered at one time or another why, for thousands of years, there has been so much […]

Exactly who is selfish?

IN the contemporary world, where left-wing attitudes are regarded as normative, it is a given that capitalism, with its free market and profit motive, emanates from and...

Ford to City . . . Arab League to US . . .

MANY readers will recall one of the most famous headlines in modern American newspaper history — the 1975 New York Daily News headline, “Ford to City: Drop Dead.”...

Eight reasons not to optimistic about Egypt

From the moment the Tahrir Square demonstrations against Hosni Mubarak began, optimism has dominated American reporting and commentary on what is being called the...

On visiting my 100th country

A few days after this column appears, I will be visiting my 100th country — Cambodia. I am writing this column aboard a ship on the South China Sea on […]

Home of the brave (or of the risk-averse)?

LAST week, the National Football League called off an NFL game because it was going to snow in Philadelphia. This has not happened before. American football is played...

Criminals have high self-esteem

BY now, most people (with the exception of many psychotherapists) recognize that the self-esteem movement officially launched by California in 1986 has been at best...

How do California and the Titanic differ?

OK, riddle fans, here’s a toughie: What’s the difference between California voters and the passengers on the Titanic? The passengers on the Titanic didn’t vote to hit...