The Lessons of Memorial Day
Whether we know their names or not, we owe it to those who died to devote some of our time on Memorial Day to remembering the sacrifices they made.
Tearing Down the Great Emancipator
The war on Abraham Lincoln continues.
Abraham Lincoln Facedown
Abraham Lincoln waged a gruesome war to preserve this nation. It makes a powerful symbolic statement of our country’s demise when his statue is facedown in the mud.
Don’t Let Fear of COVID Dominate Your Life
In the past, when respiratory viruses hit, leaders (including in the medical field) saw it as their duty to stem panic and to encourage people to go on with their lives as much as possible.
Two Presidents Accused of Disrespect
Ultimately, the American people decide which of the candidates for president has the strength and character to lead.
Who Elected Twitter and Facebook to Censor Speech?
Banning anyone’s political speech, left or right, is wrong. Once the speech of one party is significantly constrained or even erased, any speech opposed to the powerful will be steadily eliminated.
Stop Destroying Children’s Lives
Is a minuscule level of risk worth destroying children’s futures?
COVID-19 and the Panic Narrative
Reason and perspective will be greater friends than panic in seeing us through this challenge.
Cancel Culture vs. Mount Rushmore
It seems clear that those hellbent on undermining America have little or no knowledge or appreciation of the past.
Erasing Abraham Lincoln
Without understanding the past, we cannot preserve our hard-won freedoms. I hope that Americans are still brave enough to oppose eradicating history, and that the extraordinary story of Abraham Lincoln will live on.
How Ex-Slaves Freed America
We should never erase the history of how blacks and whites worked together to defeat slavery.
Riots and the Danger to America
Central to the American ideal is that no group is treated better or worse than another. Every citizen is an individual, with sacred rights.
We Didn’t Close America in
1957-1958
When all this is over, one of the key problems to resolve will be: how to deal with viruses and save lives without doing unacceptably massive damage to our whole society.