For the past two years, or so, I thought the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, was another Mikheil Saakashvili, a mere copycat; for the two made…
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My Armenian brothers and sisters: I write to you in this dark hour of grave peril that you are enduring, enthralled by your resilience and…
Since time immemorial, as old as the transition from the pre-social to the post-social state of nature, as construed by Enlightenment philosophers, namely Jean-Jacques Rousseau…
In an earlier contribution to IE Insights, “End of the Simulation: Human Consciousness and the Ukraine Crisis,” I have traced the origins of war to…
In the first article, “On Losing One’s Self,” I have established that the loss of the self occurs when the person no longer entertains a…
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss…
“Why must the righteous suffer?” Has hitherto been one of the most profound and enigmatic philosophical, theological, moral, and ethical inquiries of all time. From…
The American novelist Ernest Hemingway once said, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” What a terrifying, yet most insightful, statement to…
Throughout the course of our social relationships and interactions, we often feel duped, back-stabbed, and taken advantage of by others. The descriptive term usually employed…
Social homogeneity and interconnectedness, in the absence of applied external directional force, remain inherently dialectical structural notions: simultaneously constructive and destructive. They produce coherent, harmonious,…