Category Archives: The Future

Facing Reality

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Victor Rosenthal

Sometimes reality can be difficult, even painful. But resist it as you will, it remains reality. Let me quote Nehemia Shtrasler, a left-wing journalist writing in the left-wing newspaper Ha’aretz: Humans are tribal creatures by nature. Hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading →

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A Long Collection of Short Topics

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Victor Rosenthal

I don’t want to be one of those writers who keeps writing long past the point at which he should have stopped. This piece will be my last regular blog. It may be the outline for a book. In any … Continue reading →

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The Post-American Age and Israel

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Victor Rosenthal

The American debacle in Afghanistan is bad for America, and bad for Europe. The jihadists of the Middle East have received a huge gift of military equipment. They may even receive “humanitarian aid” from the US, in return for releasing … Continue reading →

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How Orwell’s Vision Might Become Reality

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Victor Rosenthal

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail – its roof may shake – the wind may blow through it – the storm may enter – the rain … Continue reading →

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Plan Z

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

In the Fall of 2012, Bibi Netanyahu and then Minister of Defense Ehud Barak had a plan to destroy Iran’s capability to make nuclear weapons. The plan was not executed because of opposition from the Cabinet, the Israeli security establishment, … Continue reading →

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Which is Worse, Influenza or Affluenza?

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

What do I read during an epidemic? What else but books about epidemics, like John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza,” about the catastrophic 1918 pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The 1918 disease, incorrectly called “Spanish flu,” … Continue reading →

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The Coming Political Crisis in the USA

Posted on August 9, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

I think the USA today is facing a crisis matched only by those that took place at the time of the Civil War and the period of the Great Depression and WWII. Those events led to big changes in the … Continue reading →

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The West is Lost

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Western civilization is going down. I predict a sudden drop in world population, a result of epidemics, hunger, environmental catastrophes, and perhaps wars, followed by a dark age that may last hundreds or thousands of years. Although we have the … Continue reading →

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