Louis René Beres
Nuclear Challenges from Pyongyang: Preparing Joe Biden for the Next Chapter
“For by wise counsel thou shall make thy war….”-Proverbs, 24/6
Understanding the Present Moment
Incoming US President Joseph Biden faces both direct and indirect threats of North Korean nuclearization. During the rancorous and doctrinally-incoherent Trump presidency, these risks...
North Korea’s Still-Expanding Nuclearization: The Challenge For President-Elect Joseph Biden
“The existence of `system’ in the world is at once obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom….“
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
By the time Donald J. Trump leaves office next month, the...
Presidential Crimes and Pardons: Donald J. Trump and America’s “Higher Law”
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” – Cicero, On the Laws
Abstract: From the beginning of his sordid presidency, Donald J. Trump has shown willful indifference to the security and justice of the...
After The Trump Horror Will America’s Next President Be “Normal?”
After enduring four years of a soiled and dissembling presidency, US voters are entitled to raise a once inconceivable question. Before voting in the 2024 presidential election, they should inquire with appropriate seriousness: “Are these...
AMERICAS“Living On Mountains”: Antecedents of a Dignified and Secure World Order
“One must become accustomed to living on mountains, to seeing the wretched ephemeral chatter of politics and national egotism beneath one.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra
During the dissembling Trump Era, perhaps more than ever before, Americans have had...
Getting Beyond Power Politics: Narratives For A Human-Centered World Order
“You are a citizen of the universe.”
Epictetus
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In the final analysis, humankind can survive on this imperiled planet only by embracing visionary ways of thinking. Among these indispensable ways, an overriding “design theme” must concern...
Looking Back: Donald Trump, Israel and the Costs of Complicity
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
From the start of his sordid presidency, Donald J. Trump has presented himself as a “friend of Israel.” Surprisingly,...
Caligula Goes Covid: Nuclear Perils of Trump’s Last Days
“The air tonight is as heavy as the sum of human sorrows.”-Albert Camus, Caligula
It is no longer just hyperbole. Still armed with nuclear weapons, a conspicuously deranged American president may be willing to do anything...
Soaring Above Politics: Death, Time and Immortality
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”
Emmanuel Levinas, Being-Toward Death as the Origin of Time (1976)
Nowadays, at least as metaphor, it’s easy to confuse the symptoms with disease. Though we are all more-or-less...
Exiting Donald Trump’s “Heart Of Darkness”: What Have We Learned?
“It ain’t over till it’s over,” we learn from New York Yankee great Yogi Berra. Now that Donald J. Trump has been defeated at the polls and is on his way out, this defiling president...