Apparently, The Line You Take On Israel

My History Writing Was Based On What I Saw In Strange, Exotic Places Rather Than Just Reading Books.

What I Am Against Is False Optimism: The Notion Either That Things Have To Go Well, Or Else That They Tend To, Or Else That The Default Condition Of Historical Trajectories Is Characteristically Beneficial In The Long-run.

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

Love, It Seems To Me, Is That Condition In Which One Is Most Contentedly Oneself.

Judaism For Me Is A Sensibility Of Collective Self-questioning And Uncomfortable Truth-telling. I Feel A Debt Of Responsibility To This Past. It Is Why I Am Jewish.