Now, I Am A Man February 17, 2023 I hope soon to tell you how I reconnected with Uri Geller after fifty years and met the 18-year-old mentalist of the Israeli Air Force . . . . . . or how, atop Masada, on my first-ever visit to Israel, I was surprise-Bar Mitzvah-ed. If I never get around to it, remind me when next we have dinner. Today, though, I return to one of what are perhaps the three overarching themes of our time (along with “climate change” and “the coming AI revolution”): the struggle to preserve democracy. Hungary is leading the charge into darkness — Putin, Kim, and others got there ages ago — but the U.S. and Israel are flirting with the same slippery slope. Watch. Oh, how I long for the competent, principled Republicans of old. Nikki Haley is not one of them. Have a great weekend.