Author: Steve On

In the midst of the ongoing disruptions, if not chaos, that have ensued following the high number of executive orders signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, very often, we can’t see the forest for the trees. If there is a method in the madness, for those of us on the outside, it is so very hard to discern it. Without aspiring to account for and make sense of all the executive orders of the Trump administration and the pushback it receives, let me see if I might be able to throw some light – from a philosophical perspective – on…

Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation as the prime minister of Canada, but I wouldn’t write him off – comprehensively – not just yet. Here are four issues to consider. First, at age fifty-three, he is young and fit. Advanced age, the coded word for diminishing faculty, was the issue most often cited in the minds of American voters and the critics of Biden in the last presidential election before he withdrew. To date, to the best of my knowledge, no would-be successor to Trudeau in his Liberal Party or any major or minor political party has ever insinuated that…