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A Simple Proposal from a Resident of London in 1941: Let's Give Up on World War II Feb. 05, 2022
Feb. 3, 1941 To the editor of The Daily Mirror, It is with a profound sense of dismay that I write t... Read More
An American Era Passes With Bob Dole Dec. 09, 2021
Kansas Sen. Bob Dole was an old-school Republican politician in the best sense of the word. His deat... Read More
A Tale of Two Airlifts Aug. 27, 2021
"This is now on track," said White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday, "to be the largest ai... Read More
All Is Hype for the Biden-Putin Summit Jun. 15, 2021
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Karl Marx's comment came to mind as Preside... Read More
Affluence + Secularism = Boredom = Leftism Apr. 27, 2021
Just as physicists look for equations to explain the natural world, I have always thought it useful ... Read More
The Schoolboy's Old, Red English Atlas: Part II Mar. 06, 2021
When I started working on the first part of this column, my 1966 "Philips' New School Atlas" was hol... Read More
Lucky Once More: America Finds Itself a Leader Feb. 23, 2021
At moments of historic national crisis, America has had a knack for getting lucky. The first month o... Read More
Reporters Glorify Themselves Into GI Joe Feb. 12, 2021
One of the easiest things to predict about the end of Donald Trump's presidency was that anti-Trump ... Read More
As Pandemic Ramps Up the Attack, Will Defenses Hold? Dec. 11, 2020
The New York Times recently reminded us that frontline health care workers — more than anyone ... Read More
Who Will Recall These Strange Times? Dec. 01, 2020
Decades from now, today's young will be sharing vivid memories of the pandemic of 2020. They will te... Read More
Eisenhower the Commander Versus Trump the Pretender Oct. 07, 2020
Washington — I'm a liberal, and I love Eisenhower Republicans after viewing the new memorial f... Read More
On the UN's 75th Anniversary, Commemorate UN War Fighters Sep. 23, 2020
Somewhere in a storage room, I've a World War II submarine recognition pamphlet framed to display it... Read More
A Request: Keep a Pandemic Diary Sep. 03, 2020
Since April, I've been telling my students that their generation will be the ultimate storytellers o... Read More
Protect Americans With American Supplies May. 08, 2020
As our fellow Americans lose jobs and lives due to this pandemic, it's helpful to pause and think ab... Read More
Will Post-Coronavirus America Blaze New Trails or Just Keep Hunkering Down? Apr. 10, 2020
On my daily walk down a side street, I saw the restaurant with a diagonal cross made of adhesive tap... Read More
Who Won, and Who Lost, World War II? Sep. 03, 2019
Sunday, the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Vice President Mike Pence spoke in Wars... Read More
A Plethora of Porcelain Was Produced in Occupied Japan Aug. 23, 2019
Q: This is a photo of a pair of porcelain figurines that belonged to my grandmother. Each man is pla... Read More
D-Day's Youth Vs. Today's Youth Jun. 08, 2019
Seventy-five years ago, tens of thousands of brave and selfless young men from the United States, Ca... Read More
'We' Once Did Fight Wars Jun. 08, 2019
Beneath the perfectly manicured lawns and under the pines and elm trees at the Normandy cemetery lie... Read More
Thanks and Gratitude on D-Day Jun. 06, 2019
We lived in Belgium in the late 1960s while my father researched for his dissertation. I was too you... Read More
