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Autumn 5759 / 1998, no. 5


From the Editors:

Who’s Afraid of The Nation-State?
By Ofir Haivry


Essays:

The Way of the World
By Ofir Haivry
On the natural morality that undergirds Jewish thought.

Zionism and the Myth of Motherland
By Assaf Sagiv
In adopting a modernistic approach to the land of Israel, Zionism’s fathers passed up Judaism’s unique relationship to the land.

Global Pillage
By Jason Elbaum
Around the world, internationalism is on the move again--at the price of democracy.

The Israel Museum and the Loss of Jewish Memory
By Ethan Dor-Shav
Israeli museums tell every possible story except one--that of the Jewish people.


Reviews:

The Good Society: The Humane Agenda
Reviewed by Avraham Peltz
The Good Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, Translated by Drorah Belishah

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
Reviewed by Yitzhak Klein
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes

On the Road Again
Reviewed by Yehoshua Porath
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek


Correspondence:

Message from Minsk, Civil Disobedience.


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How Great Nations Can Win Small WarsIraq, Northern Ireland, and the secret strength of democratic peoples.
The Road to Democracy in the Arab WorldLiberalism has deep roots in the Middle East, if we know where to look.
The Magician of LjubljanaThe totalitarian dreams of Slavoj Žižek.

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