Time and again I'm amazed how well Einstein's opinions and predictions have aged, whether in physics or politics. Of course there's probably some survivorship bias involved, as we're more likely to hear about his successes than mistakes.
In keeping with your survivorship bias comment, a terrible prediction and opinion he held was that socialism was the right social system for human societies. And he thought the US should halt nuclear weapon development, while the USSR was moving towards it at full steam.
This letter is less about the state of Israel, and more about the Israeli freedom party, the predecessor of today's Likud party headed by Netanyahu.
Time and again I'm amazed how well Einstein's opinions and predictions have aged, whether in physics or politics. Of course there's probably some survivorship bias involved, as we're more likely to hear about his successes than mistakes.
In keeping with your survivorship bias comment, a terrible prediction and opinion he held was that socialism was the right social system for human societies. And he thought the US should halt nuclear weapon development, while the USSR was moving towards it at full steam.
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