The fortunes of Mexico and Donald J. Trump are inextricably linked. When I visited Mexico City in the summer of 2017, locals seemed to have warmed to that reality. Several told a yarn about investing in 11-foot ladders to scale…
What you see below is a leaflet the British dropped over Germany in 1943, when the tide of war had turned. Kraft durch Freude means “Strength through Joy.” It was a slogan used by the Nazi-run labor organization that extracted…
America has a body image issue. Ours is a great and beautiful civilization, but when we look in the mirror, we see ugliness, ungainliness, disproportion, and a history of sin spanning the ages from the founding to the modern-day. So…
I saw a t-shirt the other day that gave me a chuckle. It read: “I may be old, but I saw America before it went to sh**.” My amusement passed quickly. As I thought about the differences between the 20th…
What a lousy movie it would make! Some slightly-built small-town 20-year-old, known to his schoolmates as a nerd and a loner who was rejected for membership in the school rifle club because he was a bad shot, manages, in the…
As the evidence of incompetence among senior American military leaders in the Pentagon continues to mount, President Joe Biden and many members of Congress remain in denial. During his recent debate performance, Biden again stressed the overwhelming superiority of the…
During Thursday night’s debate between Presidents Biden and Trump many questions related to the state of the economy and economic policy were broached. Conspicuously absent from the debate, however, were any questions or even a mention of the largest economic…
It’s hard now to recapture just how “leading from behind” became a catchphrase for Barack Obama’s approach to foreign policy. Attribution for the phrase, at least in the Obama context, is all over the place. Did he ever say it?…
I believe it began with the school lockdowns of 2020. Many parents got their first good look at what kids were learning in school by peeking over their shoulders during online at-home classes. There was a national backlash, particularly against…
