“Happy are those who know that behind all speeches are still the unspeakable lies….”-Rainer Maria Rilke, Possibility of Being Rilke, the Dionysian poet, is generally associated...
“Life can only be understood backwards: but it must be lived forwards.”-Soren Kierkegaard For good reason, millions of Americans remain wary of any Trump return to...
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet, seen too often, familiar with her face, we...
Cognac makes you a rebellious prankster—Somewhat not practical, but very romantic. Prodigiously hacks it away at anchors of everything that is immobile and static. –Joseph Brodsky...
“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)[1] How did...
“Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?”-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951) Intellect and National Security In the end, nothing could...
“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...
