Louis René Beres
ARTICLES BY: Louis René Beres
Donald Trump’s Accelerating War on Truth and Justice
For US President Donald Trump, policymaking by imposed chaos and deliberate incoherence has become the new normal. Again and again, we learn that this president's...
Conspicuous Irony: Lecturing to a Trump Rally Against ‘Mob Rule’
President Donald Trump and his supporters were largely correct that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had been treated shabbily and without proper regard for due process. Still, this ought...
‘America First’ Undermines American Ideals — and Our Humanity
While stunningly counter-intuitive, the critical gap between technical intelligence and human empathy is more insidious than ever before. In response, one fundamental question should spring...
The Seductive Appeal of Jihadist Terror in Israel — and Around the World
While the professional literature on terrorism and counter-terrorism devotes considerable attention to martyrdom and jihad, not much has pertained to critically underlying promises of immortality....
Why ‘America First’ Will Never Protect America
In the 17th century, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously warned against growing conditions of anarchy in world politics, conditions that he associated with a devastating...
The Deteriorating Trump Presidency: The Risk of Nuclear War
At a moment when the Trump presidency is plainly in steep decline, the ultimate hazard remains a nuclear incident. In essence, there are now various...
A Way Toward a Better World
In the introduction to his eccentric but still magisterial The Decline of the West (1918), Oswald Spengler acknowledges the inspirational “philosophy of Goethe.” More precisely,...
Why ‘Palestine’ Would Be a Dangerous Fiction
“The first general law, which is to be found in the very end of the society of Nations, is that each Nation should contribute as...
Donald Trump Shamefully Whitewashes North Korean Human Rights Abuses
US President Donald Trump traveled to Singapore to negotiate urgent nuclear matters and not to discuss North Korean violations of basic human rights. Nonetheless, any...
Would Donald Trump Actually Use the Bomb?
After the Helsinki Summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, certain fearful matters of “high politics” in American diplomacy are discussed only...
After Helsinki, US Abandons Its Legal Obligations in Syria
Among several noteworthy and interrelated Helsinki summit policy derelictions -- most obviously, Vladimir Putin’s still unpunished aggressions in Crimea -- US President Donald Trump chose to ignore America’s...
Lamed-Vav and the Danger of Donald
Whatever else Donald Trump might believe, the state of our American union is deeply intertwined with the state of our world. There is no getting...
US Foreign Policy Cannot Ignore Human Rights
US President Donald Trump traveled to Singapore to negotiate nuclear issues, not to discuss North Korean violations of basic human rights. Still, any such willful...
Why Trump’s Policies Will Ultimately Harm Israel
"Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition...
