I just realised, that mr. Cameron is leaving Downing street 10. That is a blow, and I did not see this coming. After all he has done what was good for Britain, turning the economy around, putting up barriers against uncontrolled migration, paving the way for two momentous elections. I really think that it is […]

I stood up, 5 am to see what the British in or out vote was going to be. I sat there with my glasses on, looking out through sleep depraved eyes, and lo and behold! The Brits are leaving the EU. At one hand sad, because we like to be in the same family as […]

It is with great sadness that we here in Denmark hear about the tragedy of the Orlando terror attack, or as mr. Trump rightly calls it; an attack by islamic extremists. Let me clear about this; this is war. It is a war we have not wanted. We never challenged radical islam in the first place, […]

It is with great sadness that we hear that the presumptive nominee of the democratic run mr. Bernie Sanders has lost his chance to get into the White house. We, the people, mourn it, and we hope, that you will set free a movement that will Change the entire American constitution, so that it will […]

When things Change, they do it in a specific pattern. First there is a great crisis, then someone steps in with a solution, if the solution is good, there entire system goes that way. Take the example og the fight between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. On one hand we had […]

Ethics is one of those fields that are really hard to understand. Let me give you an example. When Jesus Christ (the benevolent and spiritual jew) was crucified, he was crucified because he rejected all rules. It is written in the bible, that the Pharisees, some not some benevolent and less spiritual jews, condemned him […]

Now mr. Trump is criticising the strategies that mr. Obama and I have laid on foreign policy as incoherent. Well, they are not. Then he says that we are rattled. Well, we are not. The strategy is a strategy, it cannot be rattled. I like a good fight, and I would love to fight mr. […]

There is some discussion in the UK on the issue of a nation. Mr. Roger Scruton who blessed us with his presence here in Denmark a week ago, has the idea that you can differ between nationalism that is a vile and dangerous creed and being in connection with the nation, that is an identity. […]

There is a lot of talking about “disruption” these days. How IT tech startups, and grownups are changing the way we see the world. As Apple, as Facebook, as Amazon, as Spotify. The same happens in the academic life. It has happened numerous times; Anaxagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Walden, Kierkegaard, Adam Smith, Nietzsche, Karl Marx, […]

Now, we have been criticised a bit, Barack and I on some of the decisions we have made. Well, we are not perfect, and we have done some mistakes. That is only natural when it comes to making international decisions in an environment as difficult as the current political one. It is not like in […]

There is a great Nordic summit going on in Washington right now, probably the accustomed Washingtonians do not think much of it, after all, things like these happen all the time. But, instead of just letting it pass as another thing in the endless parade of international occurrences happening in DC, lets have a look […]

There was a time when we philosophers did our best to kill G-d. Remember? When Nietzsche told the story about the man that came down from the mountains and told some people that he met, that G-d is dead. Have´nt you heard? These days it is the other way around, we try our best, we […]

There has been a renewed discussion of the economic skills of the great Us of A. Well there is no discussion that the skills are there, the discussion is just; how does that translate into jobs? First of all, the Republicans, and most of the Democrats does not really seem to understand the underlying philosophical […]

There has been a lot of discussion about the aim and the purpose of the foreign policy of the Obama administration. Mr. Trump says, at one hand, that it is absolutely without aim, at the other hand the EU administration has just admitted that the policies are much deeper and better than their own! Well, […]

To develop the world, the world needs to have peace. Otherwise most of the ressources and the ability to invest in the betterment of humanity is forfeit. It is like a lake, if there is war, the ressources are sucked up, the dams breached will take away water. If there is peace, the dams will […]

I think that the US must be the most reluctant empiremaker ever. I mean, it is as though the different candidates in the election almost fight over how to NOT be an empire. This is truly the greatest strenght of the US. The clean ethical view on power. Power is not to opress, but to […]

If you want to fight, you have to be prepared to get hit from time to time, that is the way with fighting. This is especially true with the renaissance of the Anglican church. You get a new message from here, another hit from there, but as when you do a pilgrimage, the difficulties of […]

It is difficult for Europe to hedge its bets in this time of destruction and insecurity. Germany has, lastly caught up with the new trends of Europe, and has had its very own islamic-critic party. The Afd. well, I do not do mudfests, and I refuse to start throwing ridicules and be the one pointing […]

I have, together with Obama, had a tremendous succes in the Middle East. The tactic; to focus on the sources of the conflict between Israel and the rest of the Middle East instead of focusing on the proxies; the Palestinians or whatever they are called, has really pulled of. As of now Israel is hedging […]

Now there seems to be a bit of fashion in businessmen going into politics. We have mr. Naftali Bennet in Israel, and mr. Donald Trump in the US. Both people most do not like much (mr. Bennet, as a Jew is not liked in the world, though we Jews off cause like him), and mr. […]

Getting back on the world scene, will be a little taxing for Europe. We have been sailing around in our own misery after the second world war, and a lot of self-pity put in as well. It is time we suit up, get realistic about the challenges we meet, and start investing our ressources in […]

When we fight for G-d, we must remember what G-d really is; he is love. When the result of our struggle is less love in-between the living things of mother earth, then we do not fight for G-d. It is only when the result of our actions are love, that we do good. But then […]

While we in the West are so busy pointing fingers on mr. Putin, I believe that we are overlooking some of the amazing things this great country is doing. I know, that we are in a conflict with Russia in Ukraine, but I also think, that we have not understood the true restraint that mr. […]

So the American election is underway, and so far I have not really done anything in it. I believe, that whoever gets to be president should do it because they had it in them, not because I helped them. I helped Barack in his second term, because we were working on something, that needed to […]

We are discussing the deteroritation of the security of Europe, that is, honestly absurd. How did it come to this? To understand this, we have to see it in a historical light. In the cold war, the psy op laboratories of the Soviet Union cooked up some pretty nasty schemes. Being devoid of hard currency […]

We have come to a place in the history of Europe, where we are at a pivotal point, as in the battles of Tours or at the battle of Vienna. We either start fighting the jihadis, or they will win. The softhearted, willy nilly, rehab thinking has to stop. I mean it, not just yesterday […]

I have been embroiled in the danish debate, stupid as it sounds. The level is low, there is not much in the content, and the rest of the world has, more or less, passed it when it comes to renewing the international debate. The incredible push that mr. Anders Fogh made is all but over. […]

I am reading this magnificent book by Dan Brown (the author of The Da Vinci Code) called Deception point. It is about American Politics. And though I have been a integrated part of American politics for some time now, I have happily been without knowledge of how things are really run in D.C.. Ok, Dan Brown […]

I have been giving the totally absurd security situation in Europe some thought over the last few days. It is much more complicated than just the threat of terrorist burning up atomic reactors. It goes much. much, much deeper. First of all, the shift in paradigm that the Obama administration has made, that is deepening […]

The security of Europe is so damned and haphazard. I will give you an example. If you read Rubicon.dk a few years ago, you may have followed my harsh criticism of the Danish state in their outright persecution of my little jewish daughter. This was planned and executed by the PM of that time Helle […]

Now, ok, the Americans, or should I say we, as I am more an American intellectual than a Danish, since Danes do not like my writing much, are worried about what is happening in Europe now. We are loosing it. Why? Because of total misconduct in the whereabouts of the security system, but not only […]

Many wonder why the EU is in such trouble, I mean, seen from outside, the problems are manageable, easy to solve. Just put up a simple barrier between each member state, invest in security, and problem solved. But, the truth is that there is absolutely no cohesion between the different states. What Finland does and […]

I believe, that we have to connect to the first Israel to make the second. The first Israel was a country that initiated the monotheistic religions. First it was just us Jews, then it was Christianity and the Islam. But when something has stopped, it has to start again. We need to understand what it […]

The political/security situation in Europe is becoming more and more complicated as the Middle East is flowing in over the borders of the EU. Let us first look at the big WHY? Why do the flow of migrants never stop flowing. To understand that, we need to understand the structure of the EU. The EU […]

The Middle East is in turmoil, as it has been for so many times. But this time, there seems to be a certain inhumanity in the way things are done. One of the things i have been worried about, is the persecution, yes outright eradication of minorities. Especially the Yazidi as well as the Coptic […]

There is a war coming up in Europe, and it is a natural consequence of the choices mr. Obama and I have done in the Middle East. We have fought Islamic State. Not all of muslims, but a part of the Sunni muslims that are quite fond of the caliphate. At the same time we […]

Now, there is a discussion on the legacy of mr. Barack Obamas first four years and then another four. Mind you, still there is another year to go, and a lot of things can happen in the meantime. But, the first seven years have been a turn around for the West. When Barack started his […]

The European Union is at its final stage of disintegration. The great what to do now?, is upon us. I have tried to prepare Europe for the probable demise of the European Union, knowing that when it happens, a lot of chaos will ensure. In such a situation the greatest threat is vigilantism and the […]

Paintings goes mysterious ways. I have tried to heal some of the wounds that Denmark has suffered these last few years, by painting a picture to homage of the Danish and the Jewish victims of the shooting at the Krudttønden. The painting is called “Mount Moriah”, an allusion to mountain where Abraham almost sacrifised his […]

I read Diodorus these days, a greek historian of the finest kind. I stumbled upon a description of the ancient Egyptian civilisation. A civilisation that has been an enduring inspiration to our own. According to Diodorus, in Egypt it was customary to be lenient to criminals. But there were certain areas where egyptians were not […]

Things are really coming to an end. The entire system of the European Union is finished, realise it or not. The islamic invasion, because that is what it is, when you are swamped by a specific religious group and cannot turn them away again, is unfolding. The economic destruction of the EU countries, especially Greece […]

There has been some storm over the straits of Kattegat, and the town of Elsinore has been devastated by international critique of the harsh measures the current PM has taken towards refugees. But it is not that simple, really. Mind you, I do agree that the current PM is a stupid buffoon, but I do […]

The American election is really getting out of hand. The international hubbub over the islamist aggression and attacks on first Charlie Hebdo and then the Vilks committee has really rattled the international community, not to mention the general American public. To good reason, the crisis is really potent, and the future do look bleak. But […]

Well, I have just finished my own contribution to the Lars Vilks committee, the committee that was attacked by a terrorist one year ago. These are my reflections. First of all, you say, that the tree of the world is nourished by the sacrifices of the martyrs. That is, an ideology will flourish and be […]

So the contest between mr. Sanders and ms. Clinton is heading into its final course. Well, I hope you are both good to go, and may the best man or woman win. I will support either and both. Talking about Socialdemocratic politics in an American mould, I think that one should look a little deeper […]

The primary election process is nearing its climax. Who are going to be the most influential man or woman in the world, the next POTUS. Well, I do no care much about who it is, after all, my friendship with Barack is good, but he is going to stop now. So to me, It is […]

Well, Denmark seems to becoming a central political firebrand in the American election process. On one hand as an ideal to many on the liberal side, and as a possible target of Donald Trump! Well, I know this was only said as an example, so I am not worried too much about that. But the […]

I think mr. Lars Løkke, the current PM of Denmark has disgraced the nation and all its citizens. The way he has handled the migration crisis is terrible and is showmanship of bad politics. Truly he is the worst politician in the world right now. He has to go. I have been quite clear in […]

What we are witnessing right now is a turn of European ethics and politics. As we have seen numerous times. It gave us Catholicism, Protestantism, Democracy, Communism, Nazism. Potent philosophies that have changed the world. The process has been, since protestantism, that the system have evolved into such an oppressive state that some lone philosopher […]