The first stone
It was coming. It was always coming for those who chose to see it. In New York City was a [...]
Fight club
For those who believe history is cyclical and teaches that warlike periods cannot be averted, even in ostensibly enlightened times, [...]
His reader’s voice
To revel in the words of a good author is like taking in the aroma of fresh coffee. Instantly, the [...]
A history of enmity
President Donald Trump's nasty dressing-down of his Ukrainian counterpart may owe at least some of its origin to a man not even in the room, former President Joe Biden.
Upheavalism
The postwar world order is definitively over, at least in the West. Donald Trump and his minions of upheavalists — [...]
Minus Rapture
Inventor-turned-wrecking ball Elon Musk is a sick man. This he may not even know, since zeal can sit atop a [...]
Too close for comfort
An author who grew up in Washington, D.C., recalls watching jets and helicopters closely bunched in the gloaming sky and wondering, "What if . . . ?"
New Age dinosaurs
In a clever but ominous piece of reporting, London’s Financial Times suggested that by the year 2100, the wine regions [...]
Waiting for the barbarians
In 1992, historian and biographer William Manchester published a powerful, if brief, popular history of medieval Europe and how a [...]
Joe and Elon
Those who consider the wrecking ball duo of Donald Trump and Elon Musk a new and dystopian development in American [...]
Before New Orleans
In the poker game of psychological warfare on which terrorism depends, the September 11 plotters cleaned out the house. In [...]
So help me God
Italy long ago backed away from Catholicism as its state religion, but the faith remains fundamentally important, even in the [...]