“Understanding Life “Backwards” but Living “Forwards”: American Obligations for a Post-Trump World
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”-Soren Kierkegaard
Though it will likely take another two years, the Trump era will...
Emptiness and Politics: America’s Futile Faith in Elections
“Conscious of his emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In vain.” -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason...
An Existential Threat: Presidential Incoherence and Nuclear War
“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...
Healing Amid Chaos: Listening to Reason at the Eleventh Hour
“When you have listened to Reason, it is wise to agree that all things are one.” -Heraclitus, Fragments
In world politics, nothing is disconnected. Though...
Nuclear Escalation Scenarios: Impact Of American and Russian “Firebreak” Theories on Israeli Security Doctrine
“Theory is a net. Only those who cast, can catch.”- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959)
In assessing Israel’s nuclear deterrence and escalation...
“On the Evidence of Our Reason”: Why Israel Needs More Explicit Nuclear Deterrence
“Whether we are awake or asleep, we should never let ourselves be persuaded except on the evidence of our reason.” -René Descartes, Discourse on...
A Perilous Connection: Donald Trump and Nuclear War
“As to dangers arising from an American president, the best protection is not to elect one.”-General Maxwell D. Taylor (ret.), 14 March 1976.
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A Time to Stop Laughing: Trump Policies and Nuclear War
“The man who laughs has simply not yet heard the terrible news.”- Bertolt Brecht
On April 7, 2026, after launching an American war against Iran,...
Managing Nuclear Risk: American and Israeli Obligations
“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.”...
Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: Problems of Credibility
“Deterrence is not just a matter of military capabilities. It has a great deal to do with perceptions of credibility.” -Herman Kahn, Thinking About...