Mel Gibson and the Macabees

I've always been told "You can't judge a book by its cover."Since when did we decide, then, that we could judge a film by its director, especially when he hasn't even shot the film yet.Contrary to the writer's contention, there was nothing in...

Breaking Through: Some Suggestions

Suissa is savvy, no question about it.Political spurts of vapid conventionalism will never carry the day in promoting peace in the Middle East. Yet clever ad campaigns will never accomplish the task, either.Tenets of religion are far more entrenched than political...

Comment on "Bobby Fischer Against the World"

Monomania best describes any well entrenched chess player. Columnist Charles Krauthammer presented this compelling argument in an article shortly after Fischer's death in Iceland.The life of Bobby Fischer demonstrates fully the terrors of a human being who lives...

Reformation before Revolution

In spite of the statist bias of German philosophical and historical thinkers, George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel's final reflections on the Philosophy of History were not merely conservative, but refuted core instincts of the insistence of state as birth and support...