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

I contend that religion and science are two distinct and unique domains, and thus qualitatively different. It follows that they have their o...

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

While the 2026 World Cup was underway in North America, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling, which is to say, a judgment rationally ...

What a difference even just a month can make. On 11 May, 2026, the E.U. enacted sanctions against “Israeli settlers over their violence agai...

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

The stature that comes with occupying (and even having occupied) public office, whether elected or appointed and especially if high office, ...

In an opinion submitted to the European Court of Justice, which tends to follow the legal opinions the 11 Advocates General, Tamara Capeta r...

The film, The Reader (2008), captures a frame of mind that may be so frequently overlooked when it is observed because it is so bizarre in ...

Even though the Vienna Convention of 1961 includes protections for diplomatic and consular properties in active war-zones, Russia’s attack o...

On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Tennessee law blocking transsexual children from being able to undergo puberty-blocker...

At first glance, the impotence of the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice once an order has been willfully i...

When a company’s management decides to take a partisan position publicly on a political issue, especially one that is contentious, decreased...

As in the case of the Roman Empire, which internal corruption likely weakened and even destroyed centuries after that empire had been a rep...

On December 19, 2023, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that Don Trump, a former U.S. president, had engaged in insurrectionist activity as a m...

The 14 th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “bans anyone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution but who subsequently ‘engaged in insu...

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a serious film that enables the viewers to wrestle with the demands of justice for atrocities enabled by Ger...

On December 31, 2010, a Russian judge sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian tycoon who had been imprisoned in 2003 after defying Vla...

The founders of the United States, most notably Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, held that for a republic to long endure, it...

Should the electorate in a republic be able to remove Supreme Court justices due to their past decisions on particular cases? Can this bas...