More: Philosophy
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...
After The US Presidential Acquittal: Vox Populi, Public Mass and America’s Future
“Who is
to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?” -Honoré de Balzac
Virtually all
US politicians, irrespective of party, are fond of celebrating...
A Vast “Tyranny” Over Mind: Donald Trump and The Death of “High Thinking” in America
“I
have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man.”-Thomas Jefferson
Once upon a time, Americans were...
Articles of Impeachment and the “Higher Law”: An Unexamined Legal Opportunity for the United States
As presented
to the United States Senate, Articles of Impeachment concerning Donald J. Trump
will focus upon various pertinent elements of Constitutional and statutory law.
Still, at...
Donald Trump’s War on Truth and Justice: Crude, Unprecedented and Still Accelerating
"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the
shadows of the images."-Plato, The Republic
For US President Donald J. Trump, policy making...
Fragmentation or Unity: A Core US Foreign Policy Choice
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”-Theodore Roethke (American poet)
In essence, Donald Trump’s ideas about
“America First” represent a retrograde vote for expanding...
Poetry and Rancor: Donald Trump, America and the “Hollow Men”
"We are the hollow men, We are the stuffed
men"-T S Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
Donald Trump did not emerge ex nihilo, from nothing. He...