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…
Responding to last weekend’s massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, Donald Trump complained that Vladimir Putin had gone “absolutely crazy.” Fascinatingly, Trump also concluded that “something has happened” to Putin. But anyone who has watched recent developments can only…
Life is what happens while you’re trying not to get hit on the head by a Soviet spaceship. For as long as I can remember, countless pieces of communist space junk have been crashing back to Earth — either because…
The world of President Ronald Reagan’s colleagues and friends continues to suffer losses with the recent deaths of speechwriter Tony Dolan and national security adviser Richard V. Allen. Those men have received due tributes, but one figure who has not…
With so much transpiring regarding federal cutbacks and their impact on decades old programs of support, the fervent hope is that the leadership of the United States and all that it stands for in freedom, liberty, and democracy will not…
I was recently taken aback by a lengthy piece that I read (very oddly) in The Wall Street Journal. Jacob Berger is a professor of philosophy at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He authored an article in the WSJ on…
Eighty years ago this month, the United States and Great Britain effectively conceded Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe to Soviet control at the infamous Yalta Conference held at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. Forty years later, President…
During the Cold War against the Soviet Union, especially during its final two decades, many liberals became “useful idiots” who believed Soviet leaders had abandoned communism and the goal of global hegemony. These were not the “political pilgrims” (Paul Hollander’s…
Friedman Pines for China Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer winner and the New York Times’s foreign-affairs columnist since 1995, has long maintained a set of curious views about world affairs. Most prominent, perhaps, is his elevation of climate change above…
