The American Triumph of “Mass-Man”: A Lethal Ascent
"The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh."-Jose Ortega y' Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses...
Thinking Seriously While There Is Still Time: Classical Economic Wisdom at the Eleventh Hour
"The rich man glories in his riches, because he feels that they naturally draw upon him the attention of the world....At the thought of...
American Foreign Policy and Nuclear War: Existential Crisis Management In A Time Of Plague
Abstract: For the moment, Americans devote scant attention to any apparent risks of a nuclear war, but whatever residual attention remains centered on such...
Fighting Existential Angst: Vainly Seeking “Therapy” On The Social Networks
"The crowd is untruth."-Sören Kierkegaard, Point of View, That Individual
Early philosophical explorations of anxiety are best traced to Sören Kierkegaard in the nineteenth century....
The Atom And The Virus: A Progressively Lethal Convergence For The United States
“It is only in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."-Albert Camus, The Plague
Americans...
Retreat To The “Fuhrerbunker”: A Remembrance Of Things Past?
"Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?"-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)
Toward the close of World War II, with...
What If A North Korea Nuclear Crisis Should Coincide With Election Loss For Donald J. Trump?
"I hold despicable, and always have, anyone who puts his own popularity before his country."-Sophocles, Antigone, Speech of Creon, King of Thebes
Democrat presidential candidate...
When An American President Becomes Agent Provacateur
"Whoever can dominate the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots...
Preparing For The Next Round Of Belligerent Nationalism
“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.”...
Donald Trump, “The Crowd” And A Nation’s Bitter Despair
“The crowd is untruth.”-Soren Kierkegaaard
The "crowd," cautioned Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is “untruth.” Nowhere is the concise wisdom of this 19th century warning more...