When he was a 19-year-old sophomore at Occidental College, two of Barack Obama’s poems — “Underground” and “Pop” — found their way into the spring 1981 edition of the college’s literary magazine, Feast. The poem that interested me most was…
Last Friday Special Counsel Jack “Crazy Eyes” Smith filed a motion seeking a gag order against former President Donald Trump. Smith wants to limit Trump’s ability to criticize the federal criminal charges pending against him in the District of Columbia…
Kidnapping is an old and ugly crime. Jewish tradition asserts that the commandment “Thou shalt not steal” is really about stealing people — kidnapping. We see that by context, for it is surrounded in the Ten Commandments by other capital…
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series by Speaker Gingrich on American despotism. Watch Speaker Gingrich discuss his series here. Read the first in the series here. The current crisis did not appear suddenly and without warning. The…
OXFORD, England — David Garrow, who received a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and praise for his work on the Eyes on the Prize PBS documentary, receives a shunning for uncovering truths about the man…
Anything new about religion stirring up controversy? Not since Cain took exception to Abel’s sacrifice. Don’t take this as an assault on traditional religions. It addresses all religions, because everyone has a religion. Every person must act without complete knowledge….
Donald Trump won the 2016 nomination because he convinced Republicans that he was a fighter. It was clear that the Obama party was stopping at nothing to win. Obama himself had already renounced America’s great bipartisan accomplishment of embracing a…
Maybe I missed something in ghostwriting class, but I always thought the ghostwriter’s job was to remain as ghostly as possible. The book, I thought, should be the author’s — his or her life, thoughts, ideas, and, as far as…
One of the early scenes in the movie 1776 shows John Adams despairing for America’s freedom from British oppression. He sings, “Is anybody there? Does anybody care?” That scene came to mind when the latest news broke about Iran’s hell-for-leather…
I declare herewith once more and most emphatically that the guilt of the German people in this war — into which they were forced by you — consists solely in trying to end the eternal difficulties to their national existence,…