We are all on the lookout for viral keywords that signal a catastrophic breakdown in interpersonal communications, Internet and otherwise. One malignant phrase that come up repeatedly is social justice. The emotional appeal is always to lightweight thinkers who…
Futurist Daniel Greenfield sees a return to an empire-ordered world across the globe. Perhaps there will be “A Unified Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok” as Kim Zigfeld suggests. Maybe China will “own” the whole Far East–or the US the entire…
(Charles Shreyvogel’s Custer’s Demand, 1903) Sioux writer Ed McGaa, a USMC major who flew F-4 Phantoms during the Vietnam War, believes that frontier painter Charles Shreyvogel (1861-1912) was a careful student of the military tactics employed by the US Army and Northern…
Remember a hundred years ago when farm parents had almost total control over their children, with little of the outside world coming into the home? No intrusion of a pervasive network of any kind. Newspapers were unanimously patriotic during wartime. …
Like it or not, the business model of higher education is firmly in place across America. Students are indeed customers. The important thing is to make money. If students and parents are happy with their purchases, then what else is…
National television news programs are almost indistinguishable. ABC, CBS, NBC and others seem to draw from the same script, with almost identical topics and opinions each evening. Deranged killers like Adam Lanza are played up because liberal themes like stricter…
(South Dakota’s 109th wading ashore at Algiers during Operation Torch, 1942) by Duke Doering On April 15, 1945, the 109th Engineer Battalion had just completed its 499th day of combat in World War II. The 109th was…
World War II had recently ended and the Korean War was well underway in 1952 when John Steinbeck’s Viva Zapata hit the big screen, starring Anthony Quinn and Marlon Brando. That same year Steinbeck began working for the Central Intelligence Agency. …
The entertainment industry has perhaps done its job too well in getting young people to fall in love after the briefest encounters and most tenuous sentiments. It is supposed to be a magical time based upon emotional surrender that owes…