Peter Isackson

Who controls the meaning of “hate speech” controls the conversation and ultimately, who is silenced? Our conversation follows

Analysis, thoughts and perspectives on events, issues and trends of global importance and impact.

As America celebrates 250 years of democracy, an uncomfortable question emerges: Are Western governments,

Hate speech legislation doesn’t fail by accident — it fails by design, because confronting hatred seriously would

On America’s 250th anniversary, it may be time to think about how the Founders were mythologized into secular saints,

Claude joins in to analyze the unstated assumptions behind a piece by The New York Times celebrating the “pursuit of happiness.”

Francis Bacon’s essay “Of Truth” masks his own service to Elizabethan surveillance and political deception. Security expert

Democracy convenes every four or five years; markets convene every second. That asymmetry, more than

Our conversation about the “pursuit of happiness” leads to comparing Aldous Huxley’s and George Orwell’s prophecies of humanity’s future.

Lindsey Graham is gone, and the tributes pour in for a "masterful operator." But operator of what? A war machine that