Friday Here I am in Washington, my hometown. The most beautiful city in the world. Just a super city of broad boulevards, a magnificent grassy Mall, spectacular neoclassical buildings and monuments, the Athens of our era. It was conceived, planned,…
As the Union Pacific railroad pushed the tracks of the first transcontinental railway westward across the plain, “Hell on Wheels” moved westward with it. Hell on Wheels was the name of the town that sprang up where all the workers…
One hundred fifty-eight years ago, on July 1, 2, and 3, Union and Confederate armies clashed at the small south-central Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, located a few miles north of the Maryland border. Over those three days, courageous soldiers on…
The American Civil War wasn’t just about abolishing slavery. I know you may have been taught something different in grade school, as I was. But in the mind of Abraham Lincoln, who led the North, saving the Union was paramount…
Washington and Lee University has announced that it will keep its name. In normal times that would seem unexceptional. Both Washington and Lee long have been honored as exceptional men. But both the leading revolutionary general and first president and…
Washington House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s place at the head of the mob intent on correcting the wrongs of past generations has been endangered. She has been waving the bloody shirt about past generations’ complicity in racism, and now her role…
What happens when an irresistible army meets the unmovable people? We may find out in Burma. The Southeast Asian country appears to be moving toward convulsion, collapse, and chaos. The ultimate result might be civil war. Burma, also known as…
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, “With our own feathers, not by others’ hands, Are we now smitten. – Aeschylus I…
January 20, when Joe Biden was sworn in as president, came as a shock to many right-minded activists. Hapless evangelicals had confidently prayed for Donald Trump’s reelection while repeating sacred promises from faux “prophets” that he would return for a…
