It’s a rare conservative who can imagine an America without a President or Congress or Supreme Court or IRS or Constitution—in short, without a monolithic federal government. Only a few on the far right remember the United States of America during…
Everyone loved the recent billionized lotto. People lined up for blocks in the big cities to essentially contribute to government coffers. And it was all very democratic. Every stratum of society was in the cue. Fewer were hurt than with…
We’ve waited for decades to find conservative politicians who won’t back down when politically correct media bullies try to beat them up. The latest high-profile politician to cave under pressure has been Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage, earlier known for…
There has been a well-deserved tendency to focus on the veterans of World War II (1941-1945) and Korea (1950-1953). Their names, however, are showing up less frequently in obituary columns namely because so many of them have already died. They…
A decade after the war in Vietnam ended, BBC reporters Tom Mangold and John Penycate published The Tunnels of Cu Chi about the hundreds of miles of underground passages that allowed the Viet Cong to observe American troops from relative safety,…
(Watch video of pilgrims returning home from Dhaka) There is a new secular moralism that is securely lodged in media, education, and government in both America and Europe. It drives foreign policy and public awareness of Third World issues. …
Cluttered used bookstores and well-stocked home libraries are on the decline. The monastic libraries of medieval Europe always had a back room where books were stored in helter-skelter heaps, untouched for decades and centuries, then rediscovered by a passing scholar. Knowledge…
Our world has always favored just a few people running the show. Call them the elite or aristocracy or warlords or billionaires or career politicians. The rest of us common people just want to be left alone to…
Writing about the B-17, Martin Caidin chronicles the engineering growth of military aviation after World War I. During the 1930s, Boeing’s gigantic 4-engine bomber outdistanced all competition as the US moved inexorably toward entry into another global war. …
On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin’s monumental book on evolution, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, was published. It landed in a Christian world already severely…