Living in israel and being a citizen there make you more or less utilitary in your moral philosophy. Is any utilitarian or non utilitarian? From my point of view, it's utilitarian. I'm not much of a utilitarian. But i think all of us have some utilitarian impulses by certain cases where's it's overwhelmingly clear to what.
Can Israeli society survive the loss of universal military service? Will the deregulation of Israel's kosher supervision spell the end of its Jewish character? And, speaking of Israel, what is it that makes its television dramas so good? Tyler Cowen discusses these and other subjects with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, new immigrant to Israel and unabashed fan of the Prisoners of War miniseries and Homer's Odyssey.