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Egypt, Syria & Israel 30 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
Independence Day marked a major event in Israel's history: A 65th Anniversary, a day of pomp, ceremony and remembrance. But it is also a day to take stock of Israel's strategic position in the Middle ...
Terrorism We Encourage? 24 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
The two Boston bombers were born in Dagestan and despite their alleged grievance over the treatment of Chechens, never lived there. For law enforcement officials and counter-terror experts this radica...
Basic Competencies and The MOOC Surge 10 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
It is difficult to know if MOOC's (Massive Open On-line Courses) are a conspiracy to undermine the Academy or mankind's final redemption, a way to open the avenues of higher education. However one see...
The Syrian Cesspool and U.S. Inaction 5 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
If one wants to understand what happens in world affairs when the U.S. sits on the sidelines unsure of its role and even its interest, Syria is an excellent case study. Now that a civil war has struck...
Taxing Bank Depositors in Cyprus 28 Mar 2013 | 06:00 pm
Legislators in the tax-haven island of Cyprus have rejected the draconian bank deposit tax defying German leader Angela Merkel. While the protestors danced in the street after the vote, this could be ...
Civilizational Discontents 13 Mar 2013 | 06:00 pm
The barrier between barbarism and civilization is gossamer-thin, a layer of taboos that separates mankind from its base nature. An impulse to ascend is most often pushed into the armory of descent. No...
When Virtue Destroys Virtue 28 Feb 2013 | 07:00 pm
In his classic work, The Critique of Pure Reason, Emmanuel Kant indicated that antinomy, or the apparent contradiction between valid principles and conclusions which seem necessary and reasonable, can...
The President's Hard Authoritarianism 19 Feb 2013 | 07:00 pm
For most of Barack Obama's first term as president he talked passionately, if not persuasively, about the need for national unity. Even the $787 Stimulus Bill - largely a laundry list of pent up Congr...
The World As We Knew It 13 Feb 2013 | 07:00 pm
For elderly women who cut coupons in order to survive in their Florida apartments; for pensioners accustomed to monthly checks; for those who were saving for that condo in Tucson, the world as they ha...
The Ed Koch I Knew 5 Feb 2013 | 07:00 pm
Former Mayor Koch was one of a kind - brash, arrogant, self-righteous, hard hitting. He was the quintessential New Yorker. In the last week after his death all of this has been said and more. But in m...
