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Israel Still Doesn’t Get Economy
Originally published 29 Apr 2008 in
The New York Sun
Why are Israel elites, especially the chattering classes in the press and the academy and such, and also those in business, so hostile to capitalism?
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US Charity to Israel Reconsidered
Originally published 2 Apr 2008 in
inFocus
Jewish institutional efforts must now undergo a period of reform and greater accountability. Some charitable efforts should be privatized. Individuals or groups of donors must take personal responsibility for specific projects, to ensure that funds are dispensed in a responsible and cost effective manner.
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Israel’s No-Win Strategy
Originally published 8 Mar 2008 in
The Wall Street Journal
Israeli politicians are preoccupied with political machinations designed to buy support from powerful interest groups by distributing government largesse. This causes not only the factionalization of politics and growing corruption, but consumes time and energy that leadership should use to address life and death issues.
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Dangerous infatuation
Originally published 20 Feb 2008 in
The Jerusalem Post
Government can no more control powerful economic forces than it can the rise and fall of tides. To effectively fulfill its nightwatchman role—to protect us from internal and external violence and to enforce contracts—government must be kept limited.
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What’s ‘public’ about their broadcasting?
Originally published 22 Jan 2008 in
The Jerusalem Post
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"You Decide": Promo for IBA TV show on tunes from the '60s
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Our “public channel,” funded by a compulsive tax, does not need to be pluralistic or even-handed. Like other public institutions that lack well-defined ownership, Channel 1 has consequently been taken over by bureaucrats and by undemocratic workers’ unions.
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