A Second Trump Presidency? Expect a Three-Pronged Assault on Law, Justice and National Security
“I hold despicable, and always have…anyone who puts his own popularity before his country.” -Sophocles, Antigone, Speech of Creon, King of Thebes
It’s high time...
Safeguarding America’s Nuclear Command Authority: Security Obligations in an Absurd World Order
Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.”-Tertullian
It should be inconceivable. A previous American president, law-breaking and manipulative in his every significant policy...
“Wanting To Know Nothing of Truth”: The Origins of Trump-Inflicted Harms
"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...
Israel And Hamas: A Legal Assessment of the Gaza War
“An intentional act of injustice is an injury. A Nation has therefore the right to punish it…. This right to resist injustice is derived...
Beyond Current Chaos: The Escalating Risks of Nuclear War
Abstract: Though generally acclaimed, the recent film Oppenheimer did little to highlight any long-term implications of nuclear weapons and nuclear warfare. This is not...
Life Against Death: True Meanings of World Politics
In the final analysis, world politics is not about geostrategic competition, military weapons or relative power. Appearances notwithstanding, such politics more deeply represent the...
Science, Philosophy and Truth: Are We Prepared For “Covid II”?
"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)
The...
A Planetary Survival Challenge to Identify Alternative World Futures
Abstract: This article calls for applying human ingenuity to our planet’s core existential problems: nuclear war; injustice; economic inequality and ecological catastrophe. This means,...
A New Film’s Hidden Message: “Oppenheimer,” Escalation Dominance and Inadvertent Nuclear War
Introduction: The new film about Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer raises counter-intuitive questions about nuclear weapons as instruments of peace. Despite serious misgivings...
Thinking About the Unthinkable, Again
In 1962, Herman Kahn riveted the US defense community with a book titled Thinking About the Unthinkable. Far ahead of its time, the American...