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Social Democracy Does Not Represent An Ideal Future; It Does Not Even Represent The Ideal Past.

I Don't Believe That One Should Have One-size-fits-all Moral Rules For International Political Action.

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.

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.

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