A Library Is A Place

Candor And Accountability In A Democracy Is Very Important. Hypocrisy Has No Place.

On Television And In The Movies, Crimes Are Always Solved. Nothing Is Left Uncertain. By The End, The Viewer Knows Whodunit. In Real Life, On The Other Hand, Many Murders Remain Unsolved, And Even Some That Are "solved" To The Satisfaction Of The Police And Prosecutors Lack Sufficient Evidence To Result In A Conviction.

The Threat Of Mutually Assured Destruction Worked For The United States During The Cold War Because It Had Proved Its Willingness To Drop Nuclear Bombs On Enemy Cities At The End Of World War Ii. It Might Work Less Well For Israel, Because The Israeli Air Force Has Never Deliberately Targeted A Large Civilian Population Center, And Its Leaders Have Said Its Morality Would Not Permit It Do So.

I Never Place Limits On The Potential Success Of My Students. If They're Going Into Acting, They're Going To Win The Oscar... If They're Going Into Law, They're Going To Be Chief Justice.

Doing Something Because God Has Said To Do It Does Not Make A Person Moral: It Merely Tells Us That Person Is A Prudential Believer, Akin To The Person Who Obeys The Command Of An All-powerful Secular King.