One of These Things Is Not Like the Others
Maybe we don’t have a word yet for what precisely it is they are.
Cinderella Man 2
What the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ film adaptation does, and doesn’t, capture.
The Taliban Crime Syndicate Waits Out Trump
Our failure in Afghanistan is by and large a failure to understand the true nature of the enemy.
Shopping Superstitions
This holiday season, ignore the ‘buy-small/buy-local’ nonsense.
On Being Grateful
We should be cheerful, useful, modest, and patient, and ever mindful of those gifts and blessings that we could not possibly hope to deserve.
Raise the Entrance Fees for Our National Parks
A family of four pays $4,200 for a weeklong pass to Disneyland but $35 for a week at Yellowstone. We can pay more for our natural treasures.
I Don’t Know What the World May Need . . .
The Kerry appointment is a terrible decision.
The Trouble(s) with ‘Sovereignty’
A sovereignty that undermines the ability to achieve U.S. goals is merely rhetorical, not real.