We often mistake the congressional midterm elections in America as the first major referendum on a president’s performance soon after they are elected. But as many in the media sphere have highlighted already, the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and in my home state of Virginia are actually the first referenda that take place on … Continue reading Run Like Zohran
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The Schumer Shutdown
But let us step back from theology and teleology for a moment to address the mundane and worldly and the government shutdown in the United States in particular. It has long been the case that brinksmanship and standoffish behavior would take place in Congress before every budget discussion and debate and then a budget would … Continue reading The Schumer Shutdown
Chipocalypse Now
It has been a little more than seven months since I actually wrote a full-fledged article. Most of the content which developed on my blog since the last article came in the form of food, music, article and book recommendations, along with a set of 21 interviews with an online magazine. The last article I … Continue reading Chipocalypse Now
The Brooding Shadow of Violence
The primary focus of the major powers (America, Russia, and China) is the material capabilities of one another. When the material capabilities of each major power changes, so does the balance or the distribution of power between them. And that is exactly what has occurred in recent years. America’s drive into egregious debt has led … Continue reading The Brooding Shadow of Violence
Forepleasure
Imagination is everything in social life. To borrow from Freud: “The realm of imagination was seen to be a ‘reservation’ made during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle in order to provide a substitute for instinctual satisfactions which had to be given up in real life. The artist, like the neurotic, … Continue reading Forepleasure
Adam A. Azim 