Friday a skilled and courageous Navy flier was recognized for his valiant actions more than 70 years ago. The delay was unconscionable, but the award richly deserved. On November 18, 1952, flying his F9F-5 Panther off the carrier Oriskany, 27-year-old…
Writing in the American Conservative, Patrick J. Buchanan has joined the current foreign policy debate with a thoughtful article that questions the Biden administration’s and much of the American foreign policy establishment’s notion of a 21st-century struggle between democracy and…
Seventy years ago, author James Michener, who served as a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander during the Second World War, was embedded on the attack carrier USS Valley Forge commanded by Rear Admiral John Perry. Its mission was to launch warplanes…
Last Summer Boys: A Novel By Bill Rivers (Lake Union Publishing, 285 pages, $14.95) Last month, eminent yet overrated feminist author Joyce Carol Oates tweeted a link to a surprising New York Times op-ed criticizing the woke publishing world’s hostility to…
Before the Korean War ended, the United States publicized Operation Moolah to the enemy: a $100,000 reward (equivalent to $1 million in 2022), and asylum, for the first North Korean pilot who defected and brought with him an intact MiG-15….