Embracing Government By Anti-Reason: Are Americans Heading For The “Fǚherbunker”?
"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the...
If You Like Covid-19, You’ll Love Nuclear War
"Defenseless under the night; Our world in stupor lies...."-W.H. Auden
Even now, after some many staggering and irreversible leadership mistakes on Corona virus - grievous...
War And Pandemic: Expanding Complexities Of Israeli Nuclear Strategy
"I warn the reader that this essay requires to be read very seriously and that I am unacquainted with any art which can make...
Beyond The Pandemic: American Strategic Survival In A Time Of Plague
"Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as...
Struggling With the Virus on Multiple Fronts: Unseen Impacts on the Risks of Nuclear War with North Korea
"This virus is going to disappear."-US President Donald J Trump, February 27th, 2020
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."-T S Eliot,...
A Once Unimaginable Scenario: The President as Monster
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"-William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
For Americans, the incumbent...
What Do We Do Now? Larger Lessons From The Pandemic
"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)
To...
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...