Race walking is hard. Trying to do it while maintaining a conversation is much harder.

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.

I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead, I learned to walk.

Australia's defamation laws help explain why the #MeToo movement, while managing to take down some of the most powerful men in the entertainment and media industry in the United States, has not taken off there.

Most women who go public with #MeToo stories are fearful for obvious reasons. There is the pain of reliving traumatic experiences. There is the rage of not being believed.

For reasons historic, aesthetic, and political, we Jews are most attuned to the anti-Semitism of the far Right - and we find the most sympathy among our progressive allies when these are our attackers.

While racists see themselves as proudly punching down, anti-Semites perceive themselves as punching up.

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years.

Paris. Toulouse. Malmo. Copenhagen. Brussels. Berlin. For most people, they are lovely cities where you might happily take a holiday. But for the world's Jews, they are something else, too. They are place names of hate.

Just as every Jewish couple gets married under a canopy open on all four sides - a replica of the tent modeled for us by Abraham and Sarah - so must Jewish communities keep our tents open. This is the true source of our longevity and resilience.

We are living in an age when anti-Semitism is on the rise here at home.

A lawsuit can be a weapon.

The Right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump.

I am a serial denier. I try not to be. I tell myself, 'You are going to die.' I repeat it. I grasp it for a second or two, but then it escapes me, and I'm back to before.

Most people, including many Jews, think of Yom Kippur as a 25-hour caffeine headache capped off by a lox-and-bagels binge. It's undeniably that. But it is also, at its deepest level, a dry run. It is the one day of the year when we Jews are asked to look our mortality in the face.

We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.

We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their behavior or maligning their victims.

'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.

Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.

Donald Trump is well known for liking people he thinks are tough.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

I haven't watched Miss America since I was in middle school, and I was incredulous even then.

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.

Only the likes of Piers Morgan would be opposed to a Miss America contest that promises to be more 'empowering' and 'inclusive.'