society

Wed 22 Oct 2008
The Jerusalem Post
The panic-mongers’ one-note chorus

The country, they conclude, must therefore return to the good old days of “social democracy.”

Tue 29 Apr 2008
The New York Sun
Israel Still Doesn’t Get Economy

Why are Israel elites, especially the chattering classes in the press and the academy and such, and also those in business, so hostile to capitalism?

Tue 22 Jan 2008
The Jerusalem Post
What’s ‘public’ about their broadcasting?

Our “public channel,” funded by a compulsive tax, does not need to be pluralistic or even-handed. Like other public institutions that lack well-defined ownership, Channel 1 has consequently been taken over by bureaucrats and by undemocratic workers’ unions.

Wed 17 Oct 2007
The Jerusalem Post
Getting beyond the teachers’ strike

As long as education remains a government monopoly, it is bound to function like all other government monopolies, where union bosses fill the vacuum that lack of defined ownership creates, and monopoly power allows them to blackmail the public.

Thu 29 Mar 2007
The Jerusalem Post
One on One: Market values

ICSEP President Daniel Doron is interviewed by fellow Jerusalem Post contributor Ruthie Blum. One quip: “The wages of labor are a function of supply and demand, not of the size of the mustache of a union leader.”

Thu 22 Mar 2007
The Jerusalem Post
Fix the system, and morality will follow

A government that interferes in everything is a disorganized government, and disorganization provides great opportunities for corruption. This “norm” for doing business has been copied by the powerful, well-connected concerns that habitually win huge government contracts by underbidding their competitors then get the government to change the terms in their favor, costing taxpayers billions in over-payments.

Mon 29 May 2006, The Jerusalem Post
Ben-Aharon: A Zionist tragedy

Wed 6 Jul 2005, The Jerusalem Post
A Martian just wouldn’t get it

Thu 9 Jun 2005, The Jerusalem Post
Danger in ignorance

Thu 5 May 2005, The Jerusalem Post
Is poverty here to stay?

Sun 17 Apr 2005, The Jerusalem Post
Here comes the counter-revolution

Sat 5 Feb 2005, The Jerusalem Post
In critical condition

Fri 4 Feb 2005, The Jerusalem Post
Death of a salesman

Wed 5 Jan 2005, The Jerusalem Post
Dovrat Commission tinkers while education system burns

Thu 9 Dec 2004, The Jerusalem Post
Institutions of lower learning (II)

Wed 10 Nov 2004, The Jerusalem Post
Our institutes of lower learning

Thu 22 Apr 2004, The Jerusalem Post
The editor as demi-god

Thu 11 Mar 2004, The Jerusalem Post
Poisoning the American mind

Thu 12 Feb 2004, The Jerusalem Post
NPR’s anti-Israel bias

Thu 29 Jan 2004, The Jerusalem Post
The BBC’s hatred for Israel

Thu 28 Aug 2003, The Jerusalem Post
About deception and decency

Thu 14 Aug 2003, The Jerusalem Post
NIF’s not-so-hidden political agenda

Thu 31 Jul 2003, The Jerusalem Post
Poverty persists in Israel because the poor are manipulated

Thu 17 Jul 2003, The Jerusalem Post
The passion of Vikki Knafo

Thu 3 Jul 2003, The Jerusalem Post
Who is poor and why

Fri 9 Nov 2001, The Jerusalem Post
The media’s propaganda war

Thu 8 Nov 2001, The Jerusalem Post
Challenging Israel’s legitimacy

Wed 13 Sep 2000, The Jerusalem Post
Indoctrinating our youth

Wed 22 Mar 2000, The Jerusalem Post
What our universities teach

Tue 21 Mar 2000, The Wall Street Journal Europe
Can Christianity survive in the Holy Land?

Wed 30 Dec 1998, The Jerusalem Post
Nice guy Shahak: Israel’s uniform fetish