Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Theodore McDarrah writes about practical philosophy for leaders. The Hague, NETHERLANDS: TO GO WITH AFP STORY ...

Alliteration is ideal for literature. Is it instructive for politics? Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin observed that there are contradictions, comrade. Indeed. Today, crippling contradictions are joined ...

Ambiguity and its cousins, contradiction and paradox, are everywhere in mathematics, both in content and thinking. Strangely, the subject that appears to be the very paradigm of reason, and that is ...

Contrary to the mainstream financial prophecy (including my own), The Federal Reserve persists in its narrative that there will not be a recession in the near future. On one hand, Fed predicts an ...