In these incredibly harrowing times, I try to relax by watching movies late at night. Unfortunately, too many are horror films of one kind or another: Serial killers who torture their victims and stage their murders, or visions of our…
Having not been blessed with fatherhood, I have no idea what the boys of today will remember when they get to be my age. Too many will have no literary or cinematic memory to apply to a contemporaneous event. Somehow,…
The United States is now paying for serial acts of appeasement for over a decade. We are witnessing the bitter fruits of irresolution, lack of national discipline, and self-doubt — and our enemies and potential adversaries know it. The well-known…
Robert De Niro is a great actor. I have keenly followed much of his career. The thing with De Niro is that in real life, when he’s not acting, he’s not so great. When he talks politics, the myth crumbles;…
Holocaust Day was marked by solemn remembrances in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world. It was marked in the U.S., as has been customary, by a presidential address, where Biden said nothing that would garner more than perfunctory…
Adolf Hitler gained power in Germany in 1932. His rhetoric and actions between 1932 and 1939 made it clear to anyone willing to see and hear and read that he sought German hegemony in Europe and beyond. He ignored and…
You can see Hanger One from Highway 101 as you come to the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. It dwarfs NASA’s Moffett Field, and the closer you get, the more massive it appears. The giant domed structure, now being…
American universities rode a tall wave of public esteem in the last few decades. In the Information Age, the value of learning naturally soars. By 2008, the chaos and violence of the Sixties and Seventies campuses was so forgotten that…
To recognize appeasement, it’s best to learn from a master. One must not mistake Neville Chamberlain for a Nazi. He wasn’t. His antisemitism was that of T. S. Eliot — an offended sensibility, a mild disgust at there always being…
