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 do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.