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Articles Written by: AMITAI ETZIONI
The Obama Administration is planning to start cutting the deficit soon for economic and political reasons. To now even merely discuss tax raises, expenditure cuts, and increases in interest rates that are entailed -- will slow the recovery. We know ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
4 Nov 2009
The Democrats are caught between the need to set up structures that will prevent future meltdowns and the pressures they face from well- heeled Wall Street-based interest groups. They are under cross-pressure to act in the public interest and to ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
20 Oct 2009
Some years back I wrote an essay for Time magazine. When I met with the editor, he told me that he wanted "a forehead slapping piece." When I meekly replied that I did not know what this meant, he explained that he wanted the "reader to exclaim 'Wow, ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
23 Sep 2009
The media is full of stories critical of the way Israel deals with the Palestinians.
There is indeed a lot to criticize, which, by the way, Israelis often do. However, when Israel does something right -- and in a big way -- that too should be noted. ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
21 Sep 2009
In a cynical review of a sensationalistic book, The New York Times featured--front page--the thesis that there is nary a difference between men who must wine and dine women before they fork over sex, and johns who pay for prostitutes. In a discussion ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
4 Sep 2009
The looming defeat of a progressive health care bill is a much greater disaster than meets the eye. The right wing will learn, as they already surmised from previous skirmishes, that they can blow the Democrats out of the water. They will use the same ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
18 Aug 2009
Former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey claims that the bill will "absolutely require" end-of-life counseling for seniors "that will tell them how to end their life sooner." Rush Limbaugh states that "People out of a certain age, with certain diseases, ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
4 Aug 2009
If this is a victory, I sure don't know what a defeat would look like.
A July 29th New York Times headline states, "In victory for Obama, House panel approves Restraints on Executive Pay." First, you should note that an approval by a panel and a ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
30 Jul 2009
I have a confession to make. I am an avid reader of personal advice columns. When I read those published generations ago, I feel that they provide a great insight what life was really like in those days--and what the prevailing norms were regarding ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
23 Jul 2009
In contrast to the thesis -- much promoted by the president himself -- that he is not an ideologue but a pragmatic, Obama has laid out a strong new normative foundation for his foreign policy. He seeks to promote peace and security but leave ...
From AMITAI ETZIONI,
Huffington Post,
16 Jul 2009
