The United Nations-based structures are fragile and in need of an urgent upgrade; we should consider this one at the U.N. Summit of the Future in September. Next year will mark the 230th anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s celebrated essay on “Perpetual Peace” (1795). The great German philosopher put forward a set of guiding principles to... Read More

Historian Richard Hofstadter wrote a landmark essay(followed by a book) on the ‘Paranoid Style of American Politics’. Being a good Jewish Liberal, his target was the American Right even though the ‘paranoid style’ was as pervasive on the American Left as on the Right. It really came down to which side held the prestige and... Read More