The true king would reveal himself by solving an intractable problem — the Gordian knot. This knot was a nightmarish tangle of wrist-thick cornel bark that was twisted around an ox cart’s yoke and ...

A Gordian knot is one that cannot be untied. It is usually so because the ends cannot be seen. In the modern age, this phrase is used to refer to any problem that is too complicated to solve.

Alexander the Great, short in patience, simply took his sword and sliced it in two! A Gordian Knot, slowly formed from the beginning of our democracy, was woven by an ever-present dark group ...

Merchan’s eventual solution to this Gordian knot of his own creation was to announce prior to sentencing that he would not sentence Trump to anything at all. Invoking an “unconditional ...

The Gordian knot wasn’t solved by patience or incremental fixes. It was solved by seeing the problem differently and taking decisive action. Financial leaders now face the same choice ...

There’s a tale from ancient antiquity so insightful we still use it today: the tale of the Gordian Knot — a knot so tightly interwoven it’s impossible to see how it can be untied. In the legend, ...