Eidelberg's proposal for an independent presidency

The Jewish political thinker Paul Eidelberg (see preceding post) does not seem to be widely known, in part presumably because in recent years he has concentrated his attention on the political problems facing Israel. This obscurity is unfortunate, because those problems are apparently to a great extent shared by the West as a whole—though in Israel their gravity is deepened by the existential external threat to which the country is permanently exposed, as well as (it turns out) by deficiencies specific to the Israeli political system. Much of what Eidelberg says is thus quite relevant to non-Jews, even if he is no longer addressing them . . . . CONTINUE