Was it really worthwhile to fight a destructive war so that Poland might be the victim not of Hitler but of Stalin, so that there might be a Soviet empire, not a German empire, in Eastern Europe, so that we should face not Japan but…
In recent weeks, another ’60s hero bit the dust. Cesar Chavez, the celebrated labor activist of the National Farm Workers Association, is now being canceled—his name erased from streets, statues removed, and marches in his name called off. Of course, there is a compelling reason for…
Ibram X. Kendi, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of our Authoritarian Age, One World, 2026, 550+xxxviii pages, $35.00 hardcover Ibram Kendi is an academic who came to prominence following the death of George Floyd in 2020, when his How to Be an Antiracist (2019) quickly shot to the top of the New…
Israeli leader has every incentive to keep fighting and none to stop with elections on the horizon and a corruption trial in the wings. The war between the United States, Israel and Iran is now into its second month. Despite spectacular early successes, the resilience of Iran’s government and…
President Trump’s 19 minute speech tonight was an extraordinary collection of blatant lies and fantastic delusions. He repeatedly claimed over and over that Iran was decimated. So why isn’t the war over? Why does it have to continue for another month? Trump addressed no issue. He did not acknowledge that it is US…
Netanyahu pitched the war as a repeat of Israel’s apparent ‘audacious feat’ of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel’s moral and strategic defeat in Gaza. The two militaries would jointly decapitate the leadership in Tehran, and it would crumble just as Hezbollah had…
A career criminal with 23 prior arrests and 70 charges was allowed to roam free until she stabbed a pregnant woman in broad daylight outside a Harris Teeter in Charlotte’s Cotswold Village Shopping Center on March 18. The 38-year-old victim was loading her car with her three-year-old…
The president threatens to bomb a nation of 93 million people “back to the Stone Age, where they belong.” After listening to President Trump ignominious, incoherent, and depraved address about the Iran War, I racked my brain to think of other leaders in history who combined mendacity, stupidity, and…
Please make it stop, Mr. President. In 2002, the Pentagon spent $250 million on the largest wargame in US military history called ‘Millennium Challenge’. 13,500 participants, 2 years of planning, the works. The idea was pretty straightforward: simulate an invasion of a Middle Eastern country in the Persian Gulf.
I was recently watching a YouTube lecture by a man who teaches high school in Beijing, which is in China, which is a country where YouTube IS BANNED, a detail that apparently concerns no one except me and possibly the Chinese government, which I suspect is fine with it…
