Three days before Donald Trump was inaugurated President of the United States on Jan. 20, 2017, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin matter-of-factly told a Moscow press conference that the incoming U.S. President was being subjected to a Ukraine-sty…

“The world today is at a crossroads, which Friedrich Schiller would have identified as a punctum saliens, that is, the point in a drama where the crucial decision must be taken: Will the protagonists manage to rise to a higher level of sublime action a…