Unseen Benefits of The CoronaVirus On Virulent Pathogens And Global Solidarity
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...
Saving The Republic: A Titanic Struggle For Mind
"Truth
cannot appear naked before the people."-Arthur
Schopenhauer, On Man's Need of
Metaphysics
If America's core problems could be reduced to their barest essentials, they would coalesce around...
The Overriding Strategic Threat: Donald Trump, American “Mass” And Nuclear War
"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...
After Senate Trial and Presidential Acquittal: Overlooked Foundations of U.S. Constitutional Law
Lawyers on both sides of the recent Senate
trial chose to ignore certain philosophic and jurisprudential foundations of
the United States Constitution. These
"peremptory" foundations lie recognizably
in...
After The US Presidential Acquittal: Vox Populi, Public Mass and America’s Future
“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 celebrating...
Looking Beyond Current Crises: American Policy, Global Chaos and Collective Will
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 in...
Looking Behind the Daily News: Informed Narratives on Israel’s Nuclear Challenges
"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...
Approaching the Brink? Nuclear Decision-Making by US President Trump in 2020
"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
“He likes...
A Vast “Tyranny” Over Mind: Donald Trump and The Death of “High Thinking” in America
“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 were...
Trump’s “Space Force”: A Predictable Future of War and Chaos
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 in...