Louis René Beres
When Democracy Becomes the Problem: Why So Many Millions Still Support Donald Trump
“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?” -Honoré de Balzac
For understanding the context of social life, Honoré de Balzac was a master. Minutely analytic in his scrutiny of...
Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold….
Core legal arguments to preserve, protect and defend the United States from the presidency of Donald J. Trump
Whatever the still-expanding bill of particulars, Donald Trump’s principles of governance remain crudely defiling in their entirety.Most...
From Chaos to Cosmopolis: America’s World Law Imperative
US President Donald Trump’s expanding crises with both North Korea and Iran, and his apparent willingness to withdraw from a second US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, are just some currently prominent examples of a longer...
Incomparable Attractions of Immortality in World Politics: Jihadist Terror and Countervailing Policies of “Mind”
Though generally unseen, the most compelling form of power on earth is power over death. Always. Today, after an American president declared "victory" over one especially notorious organization with aggressive claims to such ultimate...
Politics as Reflection: Even in an Election Year, Real Change Must Come From “Below”
“What is the good of passing from one untenable position to another, of seeking justification always on the same plane?”-Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Again and again, in vain, Americans seek progress in politics. But as really ought...
What Happens to Israel If the US and Iran Go to War?
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war.
-Proverbs 24:6
On core matters of peace and security, two closely interrelated questions must be asked:
1. What precisely does Donald Trump have in mind regarding any
potential armed...
Toward A More Thoughtful Nuclear Diplomacy: An American Strategic Imperative
“Hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined.” -Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (416 BCE)
Hope is never a...
Creating a Future: Nationalism, Patriotism and Global “Oneness”
“What does not benefit the entire hive is no benefit to the bee.”-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Sometimes, truth can be both counter-intuitive and bitterly ironic. Although Americans have long been instructed that patriotism is a proper sentiment...
“Whisperings of the Irrational”: Core Origins of America’s Trump Decline
“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)
The...
Defying the Herd: “Personhood,” War and the Triumph of Peace
Art, we may learn from Picasso, is “the lie that lets us see the truth.” In this connection, Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti’s iconic sculpture, Man Pointing, appears to indict an entire world. Skeletal and (at...