Yes, Virginia, after thousands of books, lectures, debates, veteran memoirs, and documentaries, there is still something to say about World War II that advances our knowledge of that tragic, deadly and totally unnecessary world conflagration that claimed 65 million lives and changed the shape of the world. Military historian and Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson says it in his huge, dense, and important new book.
D arkest Hour, Joe Wright’s recent film, vividly describes the closing days of May 1940, when Adolf Hitler’s blitzkrieg swept over…
There’s never a bad day to remember and salute those who’ve fought to protect America. But there are special days…
So, a few days ago was my 73rd birthday. I spent it in Rancho Mirage, near Palm Springs, with my…
White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly was attacked last week for his comments that Robert E. Lee was…
T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruellest month…mixing Memory and desire…” But he never spent a sun-drenched, late summer’s…
In a wild press conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump doubled-down on his decision to criticize “both sides” of the…
For looting gold-plated shingles off the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus during their sack of Rome in 455, the Vandals…
The spring of 1942 was not an optimistic time for America, or for the free world. Most of Europe was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitler’s Nazis. And how the allies were going to reverse this was not obvious at the time. If anything the situation in the Pacific was even gloomier, with the Japanese Imperial Navy having its way against the Americans, the Brits, the Chinese, and the Dutch. Had the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere been a public company then, brokers would have been giving the buy signal. It wasn’t even clear at that time that the mainland United States was out of reach of the Land of the Rising Sun’s war machine. Very bad medicine.
Americans tend to trust their local governments above all others. A September, 2016, survey by Gallup showed that “Americans who trust” local…
