Last week, my piece noting the May 29th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s birthday (“JFK at 108”) drew some attention from my American Spectator colleague Francis Sempa. Make that disapproving attention. All of which is happily received in the…
My American Spectator colleague Jeffrey Lord’s interesting article recalling his youthful experiences on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated brought back some of my own vague memories (I was only a few months past my fourth birthday on…
Among the most fatuous exercises engaged in by the Fourth Estate after the voters elect a chief executive is the publication of the dreaded “first 100 days” editorial. Having endured a protracted and usually acrimonious political campaign, the long-suffering public…
A simple warning to President Trump: Human nature hasn’t changed. Presidents are not exempt from the problem of hubris. When married to the awesome power of the presidency, there’s the human tendency to throw caution to the wind, to embrace…
All 13 presidents of the United States since Dwight D. Eisenhower have been college graduates. The years after high school are critically formative ones when adolescents become adults, so most presidents in the modern era were significantly influenced by their…
One is tempted to say Donald J. Trump became the 47th President of the United States at 18:11 EDT on 13 July 2024. The image of him fist-pumping the air in bloodied defiance after the failed assassination attempt in Butler,…
