Geoffrey Norman
We have a coyote problem here on my daughter’s farm. They come every night looking for easy prey, which qualifies as no surprise. They are predators, after all. And while there are squirrels and mice and chipmunks and turkeys in…
We were on the headwaters of LaBarge Creek, at some 8,000 feet of elevation, in the Bridger-Teton National Forest of Wyoming. We’d driven south from Jackson. It took a couple of hours by the clock, but it seemed we’d come…
People like to say that Tom Brady came out of nowhere. They say he was the backup who might never have been a starter, much less a star — and finally a legend — if it had not been for…
Rush Limbaugh announced yesterday that he has been diagnosed with lung cancer. He used the modifier “advanced,” which does the seemingly impossible thing: it makes the word “cancer” sound even more ominous than it already did. Just hearing the word…
Iran’s seizure, at sea, of the British-flagged Stena Impero could be a serious threat to world peace. Or not. Events that seem small and random at the time can have large and terrible consequences. Ask Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Or consider…
The U.S. Women’s Soccer team came home with the trophy, but, of course, that isn’t the end of it. Winning, it seems, is not enough. The contemporary script called for some politics and protests over injustice and unequal treatment, without…
If you want to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president of the United States, then it seems you’ll need a plan. Several, in fact. And those plans must be big. This contest will be about what George H. W….
There was a time — and not so long ago — when America’s leaders would say that we were “addicted to oil,” and warn us that we could not “drill our way out of this.” This turned out to be…
When you think about D-Day on this 75th anniversary, there is much that stimulates a kind of awe. Strictly as a military problem the thing was one possible FUBAR (ask a Vet) piled upon another. At the big levels, strategic…
