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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...
Targeting Terrorist Leaders After Al-Baghdadi: Legal And Tactical Expectations
“For By Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.”-Proverbs, 24 (6)
Under the protective tutelage of an
American president, any American president, "We the People" should...
Donald Trump, War and the Shape of Chaos
“And we are
here as on a darkling plain, Swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where
ignorant armies clash by night”. -Matthew Arnold, Dover
Beach
With the...
When Democracy Becomes the Problem: Why So Many Millions Still Support Donald Trump
“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty
skulls?” -Honoré de Balzac
For understanding the context of social
life, Honoré de Balzac...