“Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….”- Leviathan, Chapter XIII[1] A Hobbesian World The seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes associated world politics...
Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.”-Tertullian By definition, an Israel-Iran nuclear exchange is presently impossible.[1] Though Iran is vigorously pursuing a military nuclear...
“Clocks slay time.”-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Some facts speak for themselves. For Israel, no arena of national decision-making is conceivably more important than...
Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd”-Tertullian There are many reasons to fear Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House, but one remains...
Abstract: Until the end of 2022, Vladimir Putin issued a series of explicit nuclear threats against the United States.[1] Such threats, once easily dismissed as illogical...
Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine has obviously critical implications for United States foreign policy.[1] Among other things, this expanding Russian “crime against peace”[2] has undermined once...
Matters of “Belief”: Aggression, Genocide and Genocide-Like Crimes Ukraine is only the latest manifestation of an age-old connection. More precisely, this Russian-generated spasm of mass murder...
“The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.“- Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971) For...
“What is the good of passing from one untenable position to another, of seeking justification always on the same plane?”-Samuel Beckett, Endgame The Adversarial Chessboard In...
“The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript, Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.”-T S Eliot For the most part, what Americans receive...