American Social Arrangements, Economic Arrangements, The Degree

How Should We Begin To Make Amends For Raising A Generation Obsessed With The Pursuit Of Material Wealth And Indifferent To So Much Else?

I Worry That We Have Forgotten That The De-ideologized, De-politicized, Uncontentious Public Space Of The Last 50 Years As Europeans Have Experienced It Is Not The Normal Human Condition. We Shall Be Sorry To Have Abandoned A Little Too Quickly The Institutions That Were Set Up By Our Parents And Grandparents To Protect Themselves Against A Return Of The Bad Old World. Because The Bad Old World Can Still Come Back To Haunt You.

I Know Exactly How And Where I Am Going To Die. The Only Question Is When.

Unlike Memory, Which Confirms And Reinforces Itself, History Contributes To The Disenchantment Of The World.

Apparently, The Line You Take On Israel Trumps Everything Else In Life.