Goldstone Flinched For Reason So Many Progressive Jews Do: Social Pressure
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 13th, 2011 4:36 am by HL
Goldstone Flinched For Reason So Many Progressive Jews Do: Social Pressure
A terrific article in the Jewish Forward today explains what was behind Judge Richard Goldstone’s decision to amend his original findings on the Gaza war: social pressure. The article describes how Goldstone’s community in Johannesburg summoned Goldstone to a meeting…
New Economic Thinking Conference to Shatter Illusion of Control
(Steve Clemons and Joseph Stiglitz sitting in the private apartments of John Maynard Keynes, Kings College, Cambridge University; April 2010) Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and I attended last year one of those conferences that decades from now historical societies…