While a student at Yale, I took Charlie Musser’s seminar on documentary films on a whim, after having taken two courses oriented to film nar...

The UN report, “Gaza Genocide” (A/80/492) states that “the prolonged unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory” by the state of Israe...

Human nature itself must be attuned to walking out before a speech by political leaders who intentionally have enemy civilians killed and se...

E.U. President Von der Leyen’s 2026 State of the Union address can be characterized as a bricolage of concerns “all over the map,” with prop...

The 2015 film, The Stanford Prison Experiment , is not a documentary of the experiment on power aggrandizement that took place in 1971; acto...

Because Syria’s government had not signed onto the Rome Statute, which renders governments and their respective officials subject to the Int...

It is easy to point to instances in which elected government-officials stage political theater for effect, for in the domain of politics, pe...

Besides international law, international organizations, or NGOs, function internationally beyond the reach of the nation-state. From the sta...

While one Georgia was secure as a member-state in the U.S., another Georgia was finding itself being frozen out of not only accession talks ...

On 7 July, 2026, speaking at NATO’s Summit Defense Industry Forum in Turkey, Ukrainian President Zelensky made the case that Ukraine should ...

The political separation of “Church and State” in U.S. constitutional law, a doctrine that is of jurisprudence (judicial decision) rather th...

Should the E.U. appoint and send an envoy to Russia in spite of the fact that E.U. and state officials are not of one mind on a strategy to ...

Human rights are typically thought of as applying to individuals, even to groups, but do national-ethnic human rights exist? Do nations havi...

Both the filibuster in the U.S. Senate and the veto in the European Council reflect the act that the respective states were sovereign and re...

Should the European Union pay prospective, or “candidate,” states to undergo legislative, rule-of-law reforms prior to accession even though...

The United Nations was intended to obviate war, and failing in that mission, at least to safeguard economic trade especially if doing so sta...

With Easter, 2026, taking place amid the holocaustic genocide in Gaza, Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and the U.S./Israel attacks aga...

It is said that history is written by the victors. The film, Nuremberg (2025), bears that out. Even though Justice Robert Jackson, the Amer...

With Russian troops having been in Ukraine for over four years by March, 2026, the case was indeed being made then for the E.U. enlarging as...

It is one thing for a dog’s tail to lead; even worse is the situation in which the tail refuses to let the dog walk or run. The staying powe...