Perilous Escalations: “Trump II” Impacts on Planetary Survival

Perilous Escalations: “Trump II” Impacts on Planetary Survival

As Americans struggle to endure “Trump II,” all nation-states should think beyond traditional foreign policies of “everyone for himself.” In  essence, this universal obligation concerns the futile and flawed human inclination to base personal and collective survival on  power politics. To satisfy this obligation – a legal and strategic requirement for all states that coexist […] The post Perilous Escalations: “Trump II” Impacts on Planetary Surv…

Universalism versus Nihilism: the True Divide in American Politics

Political discourse in the United States for the past quarter century has centered around narratives of polarization and a “red versus blue” divide. Every day in the second Trump administration it seems to demolish conventional political wisdom, including the dynamics of polarization.Recent weeks have featured a curious phenomenon: conservative commentators like David Brooks and William Kristol have issued calls for radical resistance to the Tru…