Sublime

The problem of the third institutional cycle is that the door was opened for massive federal oversight of American life, without defining limits and without establishing an institutional structure capable of managing its vast authority.

the faith of a man who has considered the very real possibility that chaos and bloodshed are simply all there is.

Leadership is most essential during periods of transition, when values and institutions are losing their relevance, and the outlines of a worthy future are in controversy.

the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.

If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.

Terrorism is a tactic selected by elite leaders because it works, not because it is a desperate reaction to oppression.

Time and again, guerrilla warfare seemed to be superseded by the “new new thing”—industrial warfare in the 1910s, aerial warfare in the 1930s, nuclear warfare in the 1950s, network-centric warfare in the 1990s. And yet each time it reasserted itself with a vengeance. Since World War II, insurgency and terrorism have become the dominant forms of con

Hay una crisis más profunda, que está en la raíz de las policrisis de nuestro tiempo: una crisis del pensamiento, del conocimiento. Se siguen buscando soluciones simples para problemas complejos. Y la proliferación de guerras lo demuestra...

Mahers Obsession ist repräsentativ für ein Phänomen, das das politische Leben der letzten zehn Jahre maßgeblich geprägt hat: Der Erfolg ideologischer Fiktionen. Die Bereitschaft, uneingeschränkt an die eigenen Fantasmen zu glauben, ist ein unschätzbarer Wettbewerbsvorteil rechter Politik. Wer braucht schon echte Feinde, wenn er sich falsche erfinde