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Doubt candy: How to sell inconsistency
“Ah, it is easy to deceive me! I long to be deceived myself!” — thus famously ends one of Alexander Pushkin’s poems entitled “Confession”....
Truth and Shadow: To Understand A Lethal American Presidency
"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images."-Plato, The Republic
Though derelictions of an unprecedented sort, even...
To Ease the Horror: U.S. Elections, World History and the Withering Promise of Life on Earth
"The horror, the horror," mumbles the Marlon Brando character in Apocalypse Now. Though merely cinematic, this sentiment exclaims a brutally truthful observation: While each...
Recycling Power Politics: For America, A Lethal “Resurrection”
"The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself' is false, and...
The American Triumph of “Mass-Man”: A Lethal Ascent
"The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh."-Jose Ortega y' Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses...
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition –Book Review
The triumph of liberal democracy was celebrated by Francis Fukuyama (1991) and his patrons as the only available alternative left before the world but...
Fighting Existential Angst: Vainly Seeking “Therapy” On The Social Networks
"The crowd is untruth."-Sören Kierkegaard, Point of View, That Individual
Early philosophical explorations of anxiety are best traced to Sören Kierkegaard in the nineteenth century....
Revisiting Fukuyama’s ‘End of History Thesis”
There are few names in the America, when it comes to the interpretation of American political and cultural history. Francis Fukuyama is one of...
The Atom And The Virus: A Progressively Lethal Convergence For The United States
“It is only in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."-Albert Camus, The Plague
Americans...
Retreat To The “Fuhrerbunker”: A Remembrance Of Things Past?
"Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?"-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)
Toward the close of World War II, with...