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by | Jul 12, 2018

The Harry Potter series is the defining work of literature for many Millennials. It has no doubt had an impact,…

by | Jun 8, 2018

I turn 70 this week, so I’m a certified codger. But I was a “codger” as a teenager in the…

by | Mar 13, 2018

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Last week, the Washington Post ran an opinion piece by Elizabeth Bruenig entitled “It’s time…

by | Feb 27, 2018

The news has been reporting on the willingness of several schools to allow high school students to engage in a…

by | Feb 22, 2018

In 1972, Charles Cole was a 20-something American embarking on an ideological odyssey: a tour of duty through the USSR as a Russian-speaking guide for a cultural-exchange exhibit sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency. Trained at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Cole jumped at the chance to serve his nation abroad with his skills. These exhibits were powerful in educating Soviet citizens about the freedoms in America that their totalitarian government lied about unceasingly. As for the U.S. government’s investment in this program, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote that he couldn’t imagine a “better-leveraged” use of tax dollars.

by | Dec 12, 2017

In our modern snowflake society, is the concept of risk vs. reward dead? By chance I happened to be watching…

by | Oct 4, 2017

Washington I have been trying to warn President Donald Trump, but to no avail. I have been trying to caution…

by | May 5, 2017

According to a Rasmussen telephone survey this week, only 29 percent of respondents believe that most recent college graduates have…

by | Apr 13, 2017

A couple of years back, I wrote an essay about the blatant anti-Semitism I witnessed while teaching middle school in…

by | Dec 2, 2016

The 2016 election proved a lot of Washington, D.C., insiders wrong. But some pundits continue to perpetuate the myth that…

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