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The forest from the trees

It probably isn’t coincidence, but I wrote my column last week about anti-heroes before it was announced that six of Dr. Suess’ books would cease to be published due...

Anti-heroes

There’s an apocryphal Chinese saying, “May you be cursed to live in interesting times.” Boy, do I wonder what we did wrong to deserve these times! There are the...

Are they listening?

On a recent Sunday I decided to have a snack. I filled a bowl with hint-of-lime tortilla chips and sat down in front of my computer. As I popped a […]

Won’t back down

We try hard as a society to set our kids up for success; to provide good educations and equal opportunities. That’s how it should be. But it seems that often

The crown and court

As a “small-r” republican I am no supporter of monarchy, yet I find that I sign up for Netflix whenever a a new season of “The Crown” is released. As […]

‘Upheaval’

When one lives overseas, a challenge is finding affordable English-language books to read. Fortunately, my synagogue library in Zurich had a small English-language...

First contact with the enemy

“No plan survives first contact with the enemy,” said the German war strategist Moltke. He should have known. He was the mastermind behind the Schlieffen Plan,...

The world didn’t end, but…

Every job has its regular rhythm as well as its seasons. At the IJN, January is what we call “Rockower season.” It’s when we parse everything we’ve published in...

Overreach

Last week I wrote how crisis can be broadening. This week I’m reminded that crisis can be used to gain deeper, possibly illegal, powers. That’s what I think of when...

Universal Basic Income

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness,” observed Mark Twain or, to use a cliché with a more positive spin, travel is broadening. We all get...