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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the “Phoenix” of the Globalized Technological Capitalist System?
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to acknowledge that three prominent intellectual figures spanning the 19th and 20th centuries forecasted...
Donald Trump, “The Crowd” And A Nation’s Bitter Despair
“The crowd is untruth.”-Soren Kierkegaaard
The "crowd," cautioned Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is “untruth.” Nowhere is the concise wisdom of this 19th century warning more...
From Plato To Donald Trump: A Once Unimaginable Declension
"....till the class of philosophers be invested with the supreme authority in a state, such state and its citizens will find no deliverance from...
Embracing Government By Anti-Reason: Are Americans Heading For The “Fǚherbunker”?
"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the...
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...
Alexander’s Dugin’s Neo Eurasianism in Putin’s Russia
The sheer vacuum created in the ideological realm of Russia after it deviated from Communist ideology in the backdrop of Perestroika became a prime...
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...