In the July-August issue of Foreign Affairs there was an article by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, a professor of robotics at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. It left me with a great deal of misgivings about the future of mankind. I was used to thinking about robots in a military situation, drones delivering packages Continue Reading
An Article by Catherine Chatterley in the Huffington Post Comparing the suffering of human beings is a fruitless enterprise that breeds resentment, hostility and competition. An old professor of mine at the University of Chicago, the distinguished historian Peter Novick, called this dynamic, appropriately, the” Victimization Olympics”. For scholars trained in specific fields Continue Reading
When I contemplate the articles and news reports in the papers, T.V. and radio that followed the death of my good friend, Alan Borovoy, it has brought an ironic smile to my face. Why? When Alan retired and we met on occasion thereafter, he always commented that he was out of the public eye. No Continue Reading
The owner of the Ottawa Senators, Eugene Melnyk has created an issue of entitlement. Why should a prominent man with money, even though it was not spent, be allowed to get a liver replacement because he was well-known, and his problem was given prominence in the newspapers. Most ordinary Canadians with a similar need for Continue Reading
Taken from “TIMES OF ISRAEL” May 13 2015 “Today there is no doubt that we are living in an age of resurgent anti-Semitism ….Jews everywhere are once again being slandered and vilified…This is taking place in the intolerant parts of the Middle East but it’s also taking place in what otherwise would be expected to Continue Reading
Democracy is a fragile entity, is open, and can be subverted from within. I am thinking of the so-called bastions of the democratic process the college campus. Moslems represent a substantial minority on our North American campuses and some of them, mostly the Islamists ,use their numbers to outshout and outvote the voices of Israeli Continue Reading