Cathy Ladman

If we want a different future, we must be willing to examine what already exists, what has failed, and what is quietly working.

A society that maximizes belonging while severing it from standards produces conformity, not freedom. A society that encourages mattering divorced from truth produces fanaticism, not dignity. Life and liberty depend on holding the two together.

The Israeli public may look at Jerusalem with nostalgic longing, but it misses the glaring warning sign the city is raising. The current Jerusalem model is not sustainable at the national level.

Fear alone cannot explain Gaza’s moral void after Oct. 7.

The hostility we’re seeing today in K–12 schools has very little to do with education and everything to do with power.