“I believe is the one great word against metaphysical fear.”-Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (1918) Though misunderstood by Israel, there is no more compelling...
“Justice is a contract neither to do nor to suffer wrong.”-Plato, Republic[1] Abstract: This essay will focus upon current issues of insurgency,[2] counterterrorism and Humanitarian International...
“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) By...
Abstract: At its core, history is the determinable record of humankind’s struggle for and against death. Though such a bold assertion might first appear self-contradictory, the...
The conversation on the role of the state reoccurs in all ages of history for all generations. It is a central piece in understanding of the...
“All our dignity consists in thought….It is upon this that we must depend…Let us labor then to think well: this is the foundation of morality.”Blaise Pascal,...
“The mass man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh.” Jose Ortega y’ Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses...
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Sophia Thomas* Meritocracy, political theorist Hannah Arendt famously says, “contradicts the principle of equality. Without equality, it is no less than...
Hamm: “What time is it”? Clov: “The same as usual.” Samuel Beckett, Endgame Credo quia absurdum, said the ancient philosopher. “I believe because it is absurd.”[1]...
Even the Mayor in Gogol’s Inspector General, not being the sharpest tool in the shed, acknowledged that Alexander the Great was a hero, although he cautioned...
