January 19, 2016

WHY I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING DONALD TRUMP DESPITE DISAGREEING WITH HIM

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Why I Look Forward to Hearing Donald Trump Despite Disagreeing with Almost All of His Views and Detesting Many of Them At the outset,...
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January 2, 2016

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON--STRENGTHS AND BLIND SPOTS--BUT A DRIVING PURPOSE

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JON MEACHAM’S “AMERICAN LION:   ANDREW JACKSON IN THE WHITE HOUSE”   Jon Meacham’s book brings alive as well as any biography I’ve ever...
December 23, 2015

PRESERVING CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT

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Ian Kershaw's magisterial new history of Europe, 1914-1949,"To Hell and Back" reminds us that during the 40 year period from ...
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December 17, 2015

THE HORROR OF FAILED STATES----REFLECTION ON THE HOLOCAUST

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THE HORROR OF FAILED STATES Timothy Schneider’s “Black Earth:   The Holocaust as History and Warning” follows his prize-winning book ...
December 11, 2015

AN OUTSTANDING BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE H.W.BUSH

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Jon Meacham’s Biography of George Herbert Walker Bush This is one of the finest biographies I can recall reading.   It describes the li...
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December 8, 2015

"THE WAR OF THE WORLDS"--THE IMPERATIVE OF WORKING TOGETHER!

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"The War of the Worlds" Some years ago a pastor friend of mine delivered a sermon in which he averred that maybe what we needed...
December 2, 2015

US-RUSSIA RELATIONS

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US-Russian Relations I offered these comments at NYU in New York City in late November, 2015 I was part of a panel,...