America’s War – Class of Sept. 12
Countries and the Forces of History This course nominally is concerned with the period beginning in 1980. That is, from the Iranian Hostage Crisis (November 197...
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Clown Car 2016 – Episode Four
As if this election needed even more controversy and intrigue, the death of Antonin Scalia cranks up the intensity even further. Objectively, his demise does no...
Clown Car 2016 – Episode Three
Well, the Iowa caucuses are tomorrow and general confusion dominates the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump, who appeared to be little more than a novelty...
Clown Car 2016 – Episode Two
In the previous installment of this series I remarked upon the outsized importance two small states, Iowa and New Hampshire, have on the presidential nomination...
Clown Car 2016 – Episode One
The first reference I can recall to the Republican presidential aspirants as a clown car came in 2011. Someone thought the long stream of candidates filing out ...
Achilles Class Three Preview
Fear Itself Objectively, the United States is one of the safest and most secure places on earth. Our only shared borders are with peaceful neighbors who present...
What are We Afraid of Today?
How is it that a country that shares northern and southern borders with two militarily insignificant peaceful democracies; a country whose east and west coasts ...
Why are There Countries?
Once we get past the illusion that countries are naturally-occurring phenomena like icicles or thunderstorms, we are inevitably confronted with the question as ...
What is a Country?
From our perspective in the early twenty-first century nothing could be more natural than to see the world as a tapestry of nation states. View a map of the wor...
The Emperor’s Clothes
Defenders of religious belief seem to be convinced of the truth of two distinct propositions. One, unrestrained by a belief in unerring eternal punishment at th...