THE DANGER OF PEOPLE POWER (PODCAST)
A classic British film comedy inspires Rabbi Dunner to examine ‘people power’, as a group of activists in Seattle declare the Capitol Hill neighborhood as an autonomous zone. What lessons can we learn from the story of the spies, and from Korach, as we consider the implications of a neighborhood declaring its independence from the laws that govern the United States?
There is a particular kind of self-destructive confidence that exists only at the very top of a brutal regime. It isn’t courage, and it certainly isn’t principle. It’s raw hubris,... Read More