Historical Context v Historicism
To understand our past, historical context is a critical starting point. But to design the future, it cannot also be the endpoint.
Kings Conquerors Psychopaths
Eric Hoffer Award Honors Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths
The Eric Hoffer Award announced last week that Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths has been named 1st Runner-Up for Legacy Nonfiction. This is the third Eric Hoffer award, as the book was previously named to the Short List for the Grand Prize, and as a Finalist for the Montaigne Medal. The book also currently enjoys a 4.9 … [Read more…]
Ecology, Economics, and Delayed Gratification
Economics fails to explain why Homo economicus struggles with delayed gratification, but ecology can offer some historical perspectives.
Starting Wars: Anger Manipulation
Starting wars and anger manipulation benefit the powerful: politically, economically, and ideologically.
Prologue, Part I: Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths
Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: the ‘great men’ of history were really vicious criminals whose rule was, indeed, ‘the banality of evil’.
Kings, Conquerors: The Moderate Voice Interview
“The term ‘must-read’ has been soooooo overused. But Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths is a must-read… must-own… and, most of all, a must-ponder.”
—Joe Gandelman
Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths Wins Two International Awards for Nonfiction
Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths wins two international book awards for nonfiction from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, as a winner in ‘Current Events/Social Change’, and a finalist in ‘Historical Nonfiction’.
Kicking the Can Down the Road, Cementing Cans
When citizens want one thing and lobbyists want another, often we end up kicking the can down the road; we should be cementing cans after they’re kicked.
‘Talk Louisiana’ on WRKF, ‘From Bayou to Beltway’ on KRVS
Hear Joseph N. Abraham on ‘Talk Louisiana’ and ‘Bayou to Beltway,’ on NPR’s WRKF & KRVS, talking politics and his book, Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths.
The Ideal & Romanticism
How many of the Romanticists ever visited the peasants in winter? Did any of them bother to pass by their frozen shacks when there was not enough food, fuel, clothes or warmth? In its focus on the ideal, how much disease, starvation, and death did Romanticism miss, in the nature all around them, and in the homes of their poor neighbors? The Romantics are like all of us: we only see what we wish to see…