Tag: America First
“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,...
Empathy, Pandemic, and “America First”: Legal Meanings for a Nation in Peril
“What does not benefit the entire hive is no benefit to the bee.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
From the beginning, Donald Trump’s ideology of “America First” has been misconceived. In essence, any concocted presidential notion that exploitative...
Why ‘America First’ Will Never Protect America
In the 17th century, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously warned against growing conditions of anarchy in world politics, conditions that he associated with a devastating “war of all against all.” Appearing in Leviathan, this prescient...
To Grow Together With Other States: An American Imperative
“The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of everyone for himself is false and against nature.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
Ominously, Donald Trump’s retrograde ideas...