Roy Pinchot, at The Blogs

Jul 9, 2023, 6:32 PM

Every day, the politicians, TV commentators, and newspaper reporters stress that all this civil strife would go away if the political parties could reach a compromise through wide political consensus on the revisions to Israeli Judicial Reform. Consensus, to...

Dec 22, 2022, 4:28 PM

Careful what you wish for…

A recent newspaper article decried the price PM elect Netanyahu will have to pay to bring his new right-wing partners into his coalition. The author complains that Netanyahu’s new partners will swing the new Israeli government far to the...

Mar 19, 2021, 5:28 PM

Israel’s political chaos cries for an institution

There are many similarities between Israel and early America. Both split off from the British Empire to become independent nations. Both were engaged in wars at their birth. Both sought to create a democracy in which the people voted...

Feb 18, 2021, 8:51 PM

Ahab, Trump, and the great white whale

Many people believe Herman Melville’s 1851 book, Moby Dick, to be among America’s greatest novels. It is a story of whaling Captain Ahab’s obsession with destroying the great white whale that took off his leg in a previous encounter;...

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Previously Editor in Chief, USNews & World Report/books, President, US History Society, Inc. author or editor of 42 books and multiple articles published inluding: The Human Body (16 vols), Vietnam Order of Battle, Encyclopedia of American History (23 vols), Famous Americans (12 vols), etc.