July 31, 2022

The Great Untethering

Reading the news today, in any venue or format, has become akin to doing an extreme sport. The potential for injury is immense. We are regularly treated to an array of gratuitous, sadistic attacks that are either coming from the truly mentally der...

November 25, 2021

It is up to the 'deplorables' to save America

As schoolchildren, we were taught that history was the product and creation of great personages.  Leaders, innovators, thinkers, polemicists — all were individuals or groups of individuals. The rest of us were backdrop, cannon fodd...

November 15, 2020

Main Street is now America’s counter-culture

At the end of the Battle of Yorktown, which effectively ended the American Revolution, the defeated British forces exited the field with soldiers playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” While I can’t say I could hum the tune, t...

October 26, 2020

Richelieu, Metternich, Bismarck...Trump

The masters of the Great Game, the art of diplomacy and international relations, managed to combine vision with strategic and tactical brilliance.  Some played weak hands astutely, while others worked from strength to accomplish ambitious a...

October 1, 2020

When it comes to Antifa, how real is an idea?

The just-concluded presidential debate is already taking its place among various Wrestlemanias for its trash-talking, in-your-face, rather un-presidential performance by both men. Less noticed amidst the histrionics was a statement by Joe Biden th...

September 24, 2020

With the Abraham Accords, The Times They Are A-Changin’: An Israeli View

Years ago, a survey was done in Japan, where people were asked how many people were there in Israel. The top of the bell curve answer came back with 125 million people, about the same population as Japan itself.   Clearly, the people in Ja...