New thinking for a world of new problems (Times of Israel, 23.11.15)
The revelation that one of the terrorists involved in the horrific bombings in Paris entered Europe as an asylum seeker from Syria demonstrates, in a nutshell, the most important problems of our era. Rapid tectonic social changes, be they the disintegration of the Arab world, the influx of refugees into Europe or the ravages of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, require us to reexamine our core assumptions. We face immense crises: terrorism, climate change, poverty and social gaps, the ongoing…