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If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.


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I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.



I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.



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I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.





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