"To try to be at once a Lithuanian……" — Noah Feldman
"To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years."
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35 Quotes by Noah Feldman
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Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human…
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Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?
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We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest…
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Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president…
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When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because…
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In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
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The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a…
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The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of…
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The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United…
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The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has…
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In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put…
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Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi…
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My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun…
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy…
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
— Jim McKay
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He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living…
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