In the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Authority delivers justice down the end of a barrel. No due process, or presumption of innocence. You would hope that Abu Mazen would change that. He has not done so far. Two young Palestinian men suspected of “collaboration” with Israel were murdered in the Nablus area over the weekend. […]

Finally, a Tom Friedman column that I don’t disagree with. The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Ballots and Boycotts

Melanie Phillips, you’re spot on. Melanie Phillips’s Diary: The trouble with Harry

Good friend Diana Wais recently become a faculty member of a branch of psychotherapy called AEDP – which stands for, “Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy” This family of therapies – which includes EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is very very different from traditional analytical approaches (Freud and Jung.) In addition to being a powerful form of […]

Lou Marinoff is regularly on the faculty of the World Economic Forum. I met him in New Delhi, and spent a day with him at the Taj Mahal. In addition to being the author of, “Plato, not Prosac”, he has founded the American Practical Philosophy Association: Masthead I have joined. You can learn more about […]