There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.