I’m not so sure about what Gandhi said here. It seems like history features waves of good and evil leaders, yet perhaps the metaphor of the pendulum that oscillates between two extremes is better. Ancient Rome had a great number …
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Two Views of Putin
Look at the faces of Merkel and Macron. That’s intensity. They know their looking into the eyes of pure evil, and each would do anything in their power to destroy it. Trump seems to have a different feeling about Putin. …
To Russia with Love
This week in Helsinki, it became clear for the very first time what’s happening in the Russian-American relationship: The U.S. is under attack from an extremely intelligent and focused enemy. First, let’s review:
Certainty Has an Intellectual Appeal, but It’s Really Unnecessary
About 45 years ago, I wrote a philosophy paper in which I disputed the importance of Descartes’ famous “cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am). This may be the only real certainty with which we live; I think that I’m …
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