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The four inner forces that overpower your values in real time

Last week we described a familiar problem. We care about honesty, patience, and self control. We genuinely want to live that way. Yet in ordinary moments, we often do not.

Consider…

Institutions, like currencies, derive their value from trust. And like currencies, that trust can be inflated away through reckless issuance of claims that exceed underlying reserves. Something of this sort has happened to our universities,…

At one of the most polarized moments in Israel’s history, the Knesset Education Committee convened this week to discuss the integration of Arab teachers into the Hebrew-speaking public school system. Instead of a serious, data-driven…

Adar arrives each year with a directive that sounds beautifully simple:

Increase your joy.

It is inspiring, deeply Jewish, and for many people, quietly complicated.

Because joy, when you already feel stretched thin, can sometimes begin to…

If like me you occasionally and very reluctantly watch anything on the BBC, you will have noticed a profusion of incestuous promotional material. This is intended to remind us all of the “value” we receive from the licence fee because in…

Israel’s Climate Conference is taking place this week in the shadow of profound pessimism amongst environmentalists around the world. For much of the past 50 years, American leadership pushed the international sustainability revolution…

Israel’s security cabinet has approved a set of administrative changes affecting day-to-day governance and law enforcement in the territories. Predictably, the response has been split between celebration and outrage. Supporters have hailed…

Since the acceptance of a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in October 2025 life in Israel has gradually returned to normal. Israelis, for the most part, no longer go to sleep thinking about their Maimad (safe room). Students have…