More: Philosophy
Beyond The Pandemic: American Strategic Survival In A Time Of Plague
"Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as...
A Once Unimaginable Scenario: The President as Monster
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"-William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
For Americans, the incumbent...
Thomas Hobbes and the Burdens of Modern Leviathan
We live in a world were change is evident and takes on different forms and representations with the given order of legitimate and elected...
What Do We Do Now? Larger Lessons From The Pandemic
"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)
To...
Unseen Benefits of The CoronaVirus On Virulent Pathogens And Global Solidarity
Back in the 1950s, as a child growing up in
the middle of New York City, I attended Saturday afternoon movies about
interplanetary war. Typically, in...
The Name of the Rose: De-evolution of Europe
“He who does not wish to speak
of capitalism should remain forever
silent about Nazism” - Max Horkheimer famously said. It was a clear and often
repeated...
Saving The Republic: A Titanic Struggle For Mind
"Truth
cannot appear naked before the people."-Arthur
Schopenhauer, On Man's Need of
Metaphysics
If America's core problems could be reduced to their barest essentials, they would coalesce around...
The Overriding Strategic Threat: Donald Trump, American “Mass” And Nuclear War
"The mass crushes out the insight and
reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily
leads to doctrinaire and authoritarian tyranny if ever...
After Senate Trial and Presidential Acquittal: Overlooked Foundations of U.S. Constitutional Law
Lawyers on both sides of the recent Senate
trial chose to ignore certain philosophic and jurisprudential foundations of
the United States Constitution. These
"peremptory" foundations lie recognizably
in...
The Suicide of Critical Thinking
“It is better to debate a question without
settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”~ Joseph Joubert,
French moralist and essayist, 1896
The idea...