I have been trying to figure out how Ukraine counterattacks Russia. Admittedly, I am no expert in military strategy but I have spent 50 years as a litigator and law professor. Litigation is symbolic combat, and some of the same…
In 494 B.C., just as Biden was graduating from college, the region of Ionia was threatened by the Persians. They could not stand the fact that Ionia was populated by Greeks, and they hated the fact that they had a…
It was late in the evening of May 24, 2014, and the Tatar activist Ervin Ibragimov was taking a stroll through the picturesque streets of his central Crimean hometown of Bakhchysarai. Whether he needed some time alone with his thoughts,…
During President Joe Biden’s recent State of the Union Address, he predicted: “We are going to be okay. When the history of this era is written, Putin’s war on Ukraine will have left Russia weaker and the rest of the…
Valery Gergiev is famous for two things. First, according to music critics who supposedly know about such things, he’s a world-class symphony conductor. Second, he’s a close buddy (for some three decades now) of Vladimir Putin, whose 2014 annexation of…
It was the fall of 1943 when Churchill addressed the House of Commons. The hinge of fate had begun to turn. The Nazis had been driven from North Africa, but most of the rest of Europe was still tightly in…
Two antiquarian books lie before me. The first is a copy of George Wharton Edwards’ Vanished Halls & Cathedrals of France, published in 1917 after the author, an American impressionist painter, traveled through the battle-scarred cities and villages along the…
Ask this: Can you imagine an American president doing what Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky is doing? Why, even during the time of the Founders, when the British Empire entered Washington and set it to the torch, James Madison hightailed it to…
My paternal grandfather was a glassblower who, in the years before World War I, left his hometown of Brody forever. Brody was in Galicia, the northernmost province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Populated mostly by ethnic Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews, it also…
