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...
“…Like A Field Of Ripe Corn” -The Origins Of American “Mass”
“The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.” -T S Eliot
For the most part, what...
Legal Order In World Politics: A Hobbesian Dilemma
“Where there is no Common Power, there is no Law….”- Leviathan, Chapter XIII
A Hobbesian World
The seventeenth century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes associated world politics...
Excruciating But Indispensable: Calculating Probabilities of an Israel-Iran Nuclear War
Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd.”-Tertullian
By definition, an Israel-Iran nuclear exchange is presently impossible. Though Iran is vigorously pursuing a military...
Concepts of Time in Israel’s Defense Policy
“Clocks slay time.”-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Some facts speak for themselves. For Israel, no arena of national decision-making is conceivably more important...
If Trump Returns as President: An Existential Threat to the United States
Credo quia absurdum, “I believe because it is absurd”-Tertullian
There are many reasons to fear Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House, but one...
Putin’s Crimes Against Peace in Ukraine: “Friction”-Based Risks of Nuclear Conflict
Abstract: Until the end of 2022, Vladimir Putin issued a series of explicit nuclear threats against the United States. Such threats, once easily dismissed...