August 16, 2024

Politicizing the Military Must Stop

The Pentagon is now conducting an expedited review of the awards of Medals of Honor to soldiers who took part in the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee, during which Seventh Cavalry soldiers killed an estimated 150-300 members of the Lakota Sioux Native Ame...

August 15, 2024

The ‘King Chuck’ Con: Congress and Judges Are Already Immune for ‘Official Acts’

President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have called the Supreme Court “out of control“ and “extreme.” But their efforts to undermine and intimidate the Court are as dangerous to our constitutional system as th...

July 21, 2024

Refuting Myths About The 1954 Indochina Geneva Conference

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina, which brought to an end more than seven years of war between France and Ho Chi Minh’s Communist Viet Minh Front. It produced a ceasefire...

July 4, 2024

Chuck Schumer’s absurd attack on the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision

There is an interesting debate about the origins of the expression, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” Although often attributed to...

December 5, 2023

Thinking Seriously About Gun Control: 10-Round Magazine Limits Are A Bad Idea

Polls reveal most Americans favor laws limiting the capacity of firearms magazines to 10 rounds, and the New York Times reports that several generally pro-gun federal legislators have expressed support for such legislation. Surely, they argue, n...

October 23, 2023

Biden’s Decades Of National Security Failures And Military Endangerment

Si vis bellum, projice infirmitate.* Hamas has given President Biden a chance for a “do over,” an opportunity to display leadership and courage in protecting our national security and world peace that has been absent from his past life...

October 20, 2023

Thinking Seriously About Deterring Iran and Hezb'allah

Roughly 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu wisely observed, “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” We call that deterrence and its success ge...

August 30, 2023

Pursuing Dr. King’s 1963 Dream of a Just and Color-Blind America

This week marks the sixtieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s eloquent “I Have a Dream” speech in which he envisioned a day when his children would “live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their s...

June 25, 2023

Trump, the Constitution, and the Classified Documents Controversy

On its face, the indictment of Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents is less persuasive than might at first appear. I spent most of my professional life as a legal scholar—including more than three decades as a professor at a top-te...

April 30, 2023

PBS Propaganda Dishonors Vietnam Veterans

On March 28—just two days before the congressionally proclaimed “National Vietnam War Veteran’s Day“—PBS broadcast “The Movement and the ‘Madman,’” gleefully depicting America’s resistance t...

April 13, 2023

Thomas Jefferson Deserves Respect From All Americans

Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and is widely believed by able and honorable people to have raped the enslaved child Sally Hemings and fathered all her children. Therefore, it’s understandable that some wish to see our third president “canc...