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...
In a Dark Time: The Expected Consequences of an India-Pakistan Nuclear War
Twenty-one years ago, in 1998, Dr. Louis René Beres, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Purdue University, published an authoritative article in the AMERICAN...
U.S.-North Korea Nuclear War: Assessing Plausible Risks
"Military strategy, whether we like it or not,
has become the diplomacy of violence."-Thomas
C. Schelling, Arms and Influence (1966)
US President
Donald Trump says he doesn't know...