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...
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...