President’s Day often brings out the most uninformed opinions regarding favorite presidents. Many people will name popular figures or those they learned about in school who accomplished the most. American voters typically desire a president who will do more but…
Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he escaped from slavery in Talbot County, Md., Douglass eventually settled in New Bedford, Mass., an anti-slavery stronghold, and got…
There was a major aftershock last week from Donald Trump’s landslide election in November — the public conversion by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the cause of free speech. The full brunt of Zuckerberg’s capitulatory announcement of his intention to…
Hope for the future skyrocketed like an Elon Musk spacecraft at year’s end with the election of Donald Trump. Which heralded not only bright prospects for the greatest nation on Earth, but a blow to the leftist delusions long undermining…
Have I gotten into the Christmas eggnog too heavily and too early? The title of this piece might well make you think so. But no, I’m completely sober as I write these words. I have scant use for Jimmy Fallon…
Franklin Roosevelt’s battle with the famous aviator and anti-interventionist Charles Lindbergh is often presented as a morality play showing Roosevelt to be the long-sighted hero in the war on fascism. Since then, Democrats have lobbed charges of fascism against Republicans,…
I never shared the awe of fantastic screen heroes forged by Star Wars and its legacy, though I appreciated the return to nobility after a decade of murky antiheroes. At least you knew where Han Solo and Indiana Jones stood…
Two hundred and eighty-nine years ago, on Oct. 30, 1735, one of the most important yet least appreciated Founding Fathers was born in a place we now know as Quincy, Massachusetts. The birthday of John Adams provides an opportunity to…
Neoconservative writer Max Boot provides a preview of his new biography of Ronald Reagan by claiming in a Foreign Affairs essay that Ronald Reagan did not win the Cold War. Boot characterizes as “myth” the notion that Reagan had a…
