We Can't Bail Out College Students

The 'Occupy' movement protesters all over the country are angry above all else. Their demands remain unclear, but calls for total (or partial) forgiveness of student loans seem to be a constant among those waiving angry signs. As most Occupy prostesters are either students or recent college …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Monday October 24, 2011

Israelis Protest Against the Wrong Target

As French students and intellectuals were playing Robespierre and Mao on the streets of Paris in the Spring of 1968, Charles de Gaulle came out with a formula that was typical of his linguistic creativity: “La réforme oui, la chienlit non.”  Journalists and commentators had to look up “chienlit…

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Written by Emmanuel Navon on Wednesday August 3, 2011