Back in the 1950s, as a child growing up in the middle of New York City, I attended Saturday afternoon movies about interplanetary war. Typically, in...
“Truth cannot appear naked before the people.”-Arthur Schopenhauer, On Man’s Need of Metaphysics[1] If America’s core problems could be reduced to their barest essentials, they would...
“The mass crushes out the insight and reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily leads to doctrinaire and authoritarian tyranny if ever...
Lawyers on both sides of the recent Senate trial chose to ignore certain philosophic and jurisprudential foundations of the United States Constitution.[i] These “peremptory” foundations lie...
“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?” -Honoré de Balzac Virtually all US politicians, irrespective of party, are fond of...
Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti’s Man Pointing extends his finger accusingly. But where is he pointing, where exactly, in what discernible direction and toward whom or what...
“The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existence (1935) How shall Israel...
“Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind…. Usually, they have wreaked havoc.”-Sigmund Freud...
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”-Thomas Jefferson Once upon a time, Americans...
On December 20, 2019, US President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act, creating the newest military service since the US Air Force was established...
The subject of Geography has often been understood and considered as the Gazetteer with names of countries and information about...
The outbreak of the coronavirus has led to disinformation that hampers efforts to contain the pandemic. Read on to find...
Shifting freight off China’s roads could be key to tackling air pollution in the 14th Five Year Plan period (2021-25), according to an...
“Social distancing”—The Way out :A nasty and deadliest Spanish flu that started spreading around the world infecting and killing over...
The virus that triggered a supply shock in China has now caused a global shock. Developing economies in East Asia...
Signs, especially in the United States, are that the post-coronavirus-plagued world will have even more inequality of wealth, within each...
At the beginning of the 21st century, the relationship between US and China have transformed rapidly as the latter surpassed...