Libya’s Future Equals One Bomb, One Runway
Yes, I’m overwhelmed by the images of the natural disaster in Japan in the past week. But the images (if they’re ever seen) of the human disaster about to occur in Libya in the coming weeks will far...
View ArticleHistory Keeps Repeating Itself In Europe
I always used to wonder how Europe — the mother of “Western” civilization — could watch itself helplessly descend into one 20th Century cataclysm after another without putting on the brakes (or at...
View ArticleREWIND: History Keeps Repeating Itself in Europe
I wrote this piece in November 2011. It is a dark, pessimistic look at how the European Union and the Euro Zone were both built on fatally flawed designs that allowed massive widespread abuse and lying...
View ArticleFive Good Questions — And Their Answers
I don’t know about you, but my life is full of questions. Some of them are of my own making, some of them come from elsewhere — but once they work their way into my brain, it’s hard to get them out...
View ArticleFreedom’s More Than Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose
After the initial, immediate shock and outrage over the Charlie Hebdo murders last week, an undercurrent of contrarian ambivalence began seeping through some of the commentaries I was seeing, both on...
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