Sublime

We live in an era when intelligent weapons can autonomously identify and kill human targets without human input.

Joaquin Aguirre

Had the siege of Bataan pitted Japan against the United States, it would have been dramatic enough. But three-quarters of MacArthur’s men there were Filipino. The siege thus layered political questions atop military ones. Would the Filipinos fight for their empire? And would their empire fight for them? Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated his position

Debt, dependency, threats, and force, in that order, was the thinking of the day. These secret memos were written while Jefferson served as president of the United States.

Win came to see me with a question. I will never forget his words: “I love my father and my grandfather and the other men in my life. I appreciate what they have given me. But I don’t want to be them. How can I not be them?” I had waited all my teaching career for Win. He had been in my courses and those of my colleagues where a Being beyond the

The idea of freedom ‘thus degenerates into a mere advocacy of free enterprise’, which means ‘the fullness of freedom for those whose income, leisure and security need no enhancing, and a mere pittance of liberty for the people, who may in vain attempt to make use of their democratic rights to gain shelter from the power of the owners of property’.