We are approaching another “Presidents’ Day,” which will be celebrated this year on February 21. This federal holiday has evolved from a celebration of George Washington’s birthday (February 22) to an amorphous celebration of all of our nation’s presidents. But…
“You are a prize bigot and un-American idiot. TAKE ME OFF YOUR VILE MAILING LIST NOW!!!” If you write or talk about politically charged issues for a living, you get angry calls, letters, and emails. They’re par for the course….
George Washington wrote in January 1790, “The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society.” He was referring, of course, to the great American experiment in…
Washington — How did the weekend that commemorated the 20th anniversary of 9/11 — America’s Pearl Harbor for the 21st century — go for you? There were huge American flags draping the skyscrapers of northern Virginia. The streets below, however,…
The debacle in Afghanistan is a failure of America’s political and military elites. It is a bipartisan failure stretching back 20 years. But it was preceded by similar losses in Korea, Southeast Asia, and Iraq — failures that resulted from…
Washington — The Woke Folk are not finished. As I said last week, they are tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Frederick Douglass. It is only a matter of time before they expand their attacks on other…
The centerpiece of the recently defeated Senate Bill 1 was the nationalization of voting laws. It would have taken away from the states the right to govern their own elections, something they have enjoyed since the inception of American independence….
It’s impossible to divorce politics and religion. We earnestly hope people are motivated in their political commitments by their deepest sense of who they are and what is their purpose here and are imbued with the consciousness that we are…
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…
