Louis René Beres
Embracing Government By Anti-Reason: Are Americans Heading For The “Fǚherbunker”?
“There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the whisperings of the irrational.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time (1952)
In...
“The First Man” And “America First” / Uncovering Jewish Meanings In A Time Of...
“The dust of the first man was gathered from all parts of the earth.” (Talmud)
More than anything else, the Talmudic ” First Man” signifies human unity and relatedness. “America First,” on the other hand,...
War And Pandemic: Expanding Complexities Of Israeli Nuclear Strategy
“I warn the reader that this essay requires to be read very seriously and that I am unacquainted with any art which can make the subject clear to those who will not bestow on...
Beyond The Pandemic: American Strategic Survival In A Time Of Plague
“Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as it is of observation….The latter is not possible without the...
Implicit Threats of Violence: The American President’s “Trump Card”
“Whoever can conquer 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, Third Reich Minister of...
Empathy and Survival in a Time of Plague
“The earth from which the first man was made was gathered in all the four corners of the world.” –The Talmud
Amid growing horrors of the Coronavirus, it is easy to forget a very basic...
The Trump Presidency: A Breathtaking Assault on Law, Justice and Security
“At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric….It is only in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, to silence.”
– Albert...
What Do We Do Now? Larger Lessons From The Pandemic
“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 (1971)
To survive and prosper after Covid-19 – a pandemic with pertinent political as...
Illness as Unifier: “Viral” Hopes for Global Solidarity
“Is it an end that draws near or a beginning?” – Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)
There are times when a grievous threat can menace friends and enemies alike. Still, in these conspicuously “bad...
Complex Determinations: Deciphering Enemy Nuclear Intentions
Introduction
In early May 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump—responding to Kim Jung-un’s latest round of missile tests—sought to reassure the American public. His seat-of-the-pants comments, however, were based entirely upon the presumed importance of his...