Freedom Without Arrogance

Before you begin reading, please note that this post is exploratory, and will pose questions intended to develop ideas, as opposed to formulating a contention and crafting it in a short, readable package. Would a shift to a more conservative value-based mode of American culture solve the issue of dissonant cultural diffusion with the Islamic … Continue reading →

Ideologies at the General Assembly

What a timely convention of the UN General Assembly it was. In case the coverage mass of the Arab Spring throughout 2011 overshadowed the coverage of crises that have occurred since, US President Barack Obama’s speech has revealed the nature of the point at which we exist in political history, such that the leader of … Continue reading →

Amartya Sen and the Reach of the Public Intellectual

In his early school days, Amartya Sen remembers being influenced by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore’s doctrine of inclusiveness: “Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin… Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.”[1] The personal humanism and humanity … Continue reading →

Welcome, readers

To all who have stumbled upon this website, I welcome you. This site will be a hotbed of commentary and critique, as the subtitle implies, focused primarily on world politics and philosophy, but not limited to it. I do hope that the readers of this site receive some food for thought, or insight, that has … Continue reading →