Nuclear Decision-Making and Presidential Authority: Existential Perils of the Trump Era
"Defenseless under the night; Our world in stupor
lies...."-
W.H. Auden
It is no longer just a
casual apprehension. Now, an inappropriate or irrational nuclear command
decision by US...
Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold….
Core legal arguments to preserve, protect and
defend the United States from the presidency of Donald J. Trump
Whatever the still-expanding bill of particulars,
Donald Trump's principles...
Politics as Reflection: Even in an Election Year, Real Change Must Come From “Below”
"What is the good of passing from one untenable position to another,
of seeking justification always on the same plane?"-Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Again and again, in...
US-North Korea Crisis Decision- Making: Growing Risks Of Inadvertent Or Unintended Nuclear War In Asia
"We fell
in love!"-US President Donald Trump, referring to North Korean dictator Kim
Jung Un after Singapore Summit (June 2018)
Credo quia
absurdum, warned the ancient philosophers. "I...
Toward A More Thoughtful Nuclear Diplomacy: An American Strategic Imperative
"Hope
is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one
cast find out what it means only when they are...
Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics
“Conscious of his
emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In
vain.”-Karl Jaspers, “Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time”...
Creating a Future: Nationalism, Patriotism and Global “Oneness”
"What does not benefit the entire hive is no
benefit to the bee."-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Sometimes, truth can
be both counter-intuitive and bitterly ironic. Although Americans have...
“Whisperings of the Irrational”: Core Origins of America’s Trump Decline
"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason,
but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the whisperings...
Defying the Herd: “Personhood,” War and the Triumph of Peace
Art, we may learn from Picasso, is "the
lie that lets us see the truth." In this connection, Swiss artist Alberto
Giacometti's iconic sculpture, Man
Pointing, appears...
Empathy, Survival and Human Oneness: Informed Reflections on Trump’s Atavistic Worldview
"Each of us is both the subject and the
protagonist of his own nontransferable life." José Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis
America First, the
most conspicuous...