Haim Watzman The dissemination of knowledge—high-quality knowledge—is essential to a democratic society. So I’d like to point out an interesting juxtaposition of articles from my Shabbat reading that, taken together, have something important to say about the importance of getting good knowledge to the public. Danielle Allen’s review of Josiah Ober’s book Democracy and Knowledge: [...]

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Haim Watzman It’s exactly a year since we launched the South Jerusalem blog. And it’s been a great year—one in which we’ve gained hundreds of readers, some of whom think we’re left-wing fanatics, some who think we’re hopeless jingoists, and at least one who thinks we should relocate to Las Vegas. I started blogging about [...]

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