Louis René Beres
America’s Presidential Election is Gravely Necessary, But Insufficient
“The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.” – Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1952)
Even in this grievously faltering United States, presidential elections are praised...
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. For the seminal Danish thinker, this concept – often referred to colloquially as angst –...
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 the advancing Red Army not yet in Berlin, Adolph Hitler and some...
Trump’s “Law and Order” – “Cold” Ideals and “Sick at Heart”
“Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.” – Hamlet
For an afflicted American nation, it never seems to end. On June 1, 2020, President Donald J. Trump once again openly defiled US Constitutional protections...
When An American President Becomes Agent Provacateur
“Whoever can dominate the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.”-Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Party Minister of Propaganda, Nuremberg...
The Secret Service Just Crossed a Dangerous Legal Threshold
To prepare the streets for Donald Trump’s walk to St. James Church in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020 – an apparent public relations stroll where he held up a Bible – the US...
Donald Trump, “The Crowd” And A Nation’s Bitter Despair
“The crowd is untruth.”-Soren Kierkegaaard
The “crowd,” cautioned Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is “untruth.” Nowhere is the concise wisdom of this 19th century warning more plainly apparent than in Donald Trump’s despairing United States. Even today,...
Surviving Der Fűhrer: An American Rise and Fall
“The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news.” -Bertolt Brecht
Any explicit comparisons of the Trump presidency with the Third Reich will elicit multiple cries of horror and execration across the United...
From Plato To Donald Trump: A Once Unimaginable Declension
"….till the class of philosophers be invested with the supreme authority in a state, such state and its citizens will find no deliverance from evil….”-Plato, The Republic
“I love the poorly educated.”-Donald J. Trump, 2016
It’s hardly...
America’s Existential Challenge: Pandemic, War and Law
From the beginnings of his crudely acrimonious presidency, Donald Trump has actively undermined US foreign policy relationships. On urgently key matters of world politics and international law, Mr. Trump’s typically invalid conclusions have generally...