“The university is the temple of intellect, and I am its high priest.”-Miguel de Unamuno, speaking against irrationalism as rector of the University of Salamanca (Spain),...
“A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests them step by step.”-Karl R. Popper -The Logic of Scientific Discovery...
“…the worst are full of passionate intensity, while the best lack all conviction.”-William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming By definition, former President Donald J. Trump’s doctrinal...
“So the nature of war consists not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the...
Abstract: Eleventh-hour diplomacy notwithstanding, few tangible barriers remain in the way of an Iranian nuclear capability. If Israel should decide that it no longer maintains any...
“Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as it is...
“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 (1952) After the...
“The masses have followed the magicians again and again…Socrates and Plato were the first to take up the struggle against them in a clear awareness of...
Abstract: Though current US defense policy centers on matters of conventional war and terrorism, other problems remain more existentially worrisome. Most conspicuous in this regard are...
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”-Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000) Taliban Victory and Jihadi Terror: Strategic and Legal Connections At the surface,...