In 1950, during an informal meeting with colleagues at Los Alamos, the famous Italian physicist Enrico Fermi asked the following question: Where…
At this juncture in history, humanityās situation is so volatile that whatever may await us beyond this turning point is of such…
āThe Left,ā in the singular, is a simplified expression of the diversity of leftist movements[1]. By āthe Left,ā I mean all organized…
I am writing this text with the Americas and Europe in mind, but the phenomena I analyze apply, with modifications, to other…
Throughout history, the siege of populations has been widely used as a strategy to force the surrender of the political and military…
The Moment of Bifurcation In the scientific field, the term ābifurcationā was first used by Henri PoincarĆ©, but in the second half…
In what is perhaps the best book on Hitler, Allan Bullock wrote in Hitler: A Study in Tyranny that Hitlerās philosophy is…
One of the most influential interpretations of 20th-century fascism is that fascism was a rebellion against the secularism of the modern era,…
Israel in particular, but also the United States, have been breathing new life into the concept of decapitation as a weapon of…
I write to you with a heavy heart and a free mind. We cannot allow the Cuban people to die and the…
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