The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'

After Operation Protective Edge, I visited every one of the bereaved families. Religious and secular, rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jews and non-Jews.

Democracy is something you have to participate in.

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.