Louis René Beres
After the American Election: Overcoming Plague, Chaos and “Mass”
“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 (1930)
In the United States, prima facie, presidential elections represent a core fixture...
Strategy, Plague and War: Israel’s Complex Nuclear Future
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”-T S Eliot, The Waste Land
Despite the noise and aggressive self-promotion, Trump administration diplomacy in the Middle East and Africa has always been a net-negative for...
Pestilence and Rebirth: Affirming Life in a Time of “Plague”
“At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric….It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth – in other words...
An Ironic Juxtaposition – Global Security And Human Mortality
It is an unexplored and ironic combination. The commonality of death for human beings – an incontestable end often regarded as the prototype of all injustice – is also a latent source of human...
Building World Order from “Plague”: Utopian, but Necessary
“In the end, we are creatures of our own making.”-Goethe, Faust
From the start of the current worldwide “plague,” US President Donald J. Trump has claimed the corona virus crisis can be easily managed. “Soon,” he...
“Hic Sunt Dracones”: Still Expanding Risks of a US-North Korea Nuclear War
“Friction is the difference between war on paper, and war as it actually is.” – Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Once again, on October 9, 2020, with immodest displays of tangible hardware, North Korea mocked Donald...
“Good Genes,” Proud Boys and White Supremacy: An International Law Perspective
“The goal is to dominate the street.” – US President Donald J. Trump, June 1, 2020
There are disturbing connections. Before openly embracing the “Proud Boys” during his first debate with Democrat opponent Joe Biden,...
Nuclear Decision-Making And Covid19 Impairments: Existential Perils Of The Trump Presidency
“In a surrealist year….some cool clown pressed an inedible mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president at his prayers on the 19th green.”–Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)
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Donald Trump and the “Racehorse”. Echoes of Eugenics in the Third Reich.
“You have good genes. A lot of it’s about the genes isn’t it, don’t you believe? The racehorse theory you think was so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.”
Donald J. Trump, rally in...
Presidential Evil And American Good: Can They Coexist?
If men or nations do evil in a good cause; if they cover themselves with guilt in order to fulfill some high responsibility; or if they sacrifice some high value for the sake of...