“Even the most foolish among us may be capable, deliberately or inadvertently, of transcendental wisdom thus, there may be hope for me yet.”  Guillermo Calvo Mahé, July 30, 2026.

A quote inspired by recollections of one phrase uttered by Howard Dean, a failed Democratic Party candidate, decades ago: “…we have to change minds and change hearts—one heart at a time.” 

Something that has always remained with me and inspires me to keep writing and publishing during times such as ours.  Times such as those that Sigmund Freud must have been thinking of while in Vienna during 1938 when, in his preface to Moses and Monotheism, he wrote: “in darker times there lived a man who thought as you do”. 

We all know what followed: the Second World War, the Holocaust, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the colonization of Palestine by Zionist invaders and the ensuing Nakba, and then, ….  well things have become even worse.
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Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.