Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. Noah Feldman Read Quote
It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can’t seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are. Noah Feldman Read Quote
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter. Noah Feldman Read Quote
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study. Noah Feldman Read Quote
To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years. Noah Feldman Read Quote
The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, pushing him further to the right and bringing out his latent tendency to govern every day as if an election were being held the next. Noah Feldman Read Quote
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on. Noah Feldman Read Quote
After 9/11, most Americans were in no mood to talk with our enemies in the Middle East, whatever those enemies’ ideology, and the Bush administration’s policies of invasion and pre-emption reflected that sentiment. Noah Feldman Read Quote
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have. Noah Feldman Read Quote
The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers. Noah Feldman Read Quote
