Barry Weiss
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How did so many so-called experts tell us that we had come to an end of history itself? And that's so obviously, whether it's Trump here or Maloney or Malay or I could go on and on and on, people are enthusiastically electing those that stand for a very different set of values.
If you had to diagnose the psychology of America and the West right now in a few lines, what would it be?
If you had to diagnose the psychology of America and the West right now in a few lines, what would it be?
If you had to diagnose the psychology of America and the West right now in a few lines, what would it be?
They have borders.
They have borders.
They have borders.
Well, if you polled most Israelis, there wouldn't be a question. If you polled most Americans, and there are polls, the number of conservatives or Republicans, I'm forgetting the details, that would serve as higher than they are for Democrats, but they're low across the board in America.
Well, if you polled most Israelis, there wouldn't be a question. If you polled most Americans, and there are polls, the number of conservatives or Republicans, I'm forgetting the details, that would serve as higher than they are for Democrats, but they're low across the board in America.
Well, if you polled most Israelis, there wouldn't be a question. If you polled most Americans, and there are polls, the number of conservatives or Republicans, I'm forgetting the details, that would serve as higher than they are for Democrats, but they're low across the board in America.
I want to pick up on what you were saying about the return to normalcy, like the return to the mean of history, and this idea that the things that growing up I took for granted, like gravity, now seem up for debate, or at least not at all guaranteed.
I want to pick up on what you were saying about the return to normalcy, like the return to the mean of history, and this idea that the things that growing up I took for granted, like gravity, now seem up for debate, or at least not at all guaranteed.
I want to pick up on what you were saying about the return to normalcy, like the return to the mean of history, and this idea that the things that growing up I took for granted, like gravity, now seem up for debate, or at least not at all guaranteed.
I think that the expression that's been used so much in the American Jewish community since October 7, and really the whole diasporic Jewish community, is this sense that the old world is shattered. And people have been talking about how they felt like they were on a holiday from history, and that is over. I want to ask you about that phenomenon.
I think that the expression that's been used so much in the American Jewish community since October 7, and really the whole diasporic Jewish community, is this sense that the old world is shattered. And people have been talking about how they felt like they were on a holiday from history, and that is over. I want to ask you about that phenomenon.
I think that the expression that's been used so much in the American Jewish community since October 7, and really the whole diasporic Jewish community, is this sense that the old world is shattered. And people have been talking about how they felt like they were on a holiday from history, and that is over. I want to ask you about that phenomenon.
Has there ever been a people, ever, that had the luxury of being on a holiday from history?
Has there ever been a people, ever, that had the luxury of being on a holiday from history?
Has there ever been a people, ever, that had the luxury of being on a holiday from history?
Looking back, now that it feels like that age has come to a close and we're on the cusp of a new emergent age that we're not sure what it looks like, although I want to have you outline some of the characteristics of this new age, was there anything that we could have done differently to keep the golden age going? And where did we go wrong?