July 4, 2024

It Is Never Too Late To Do the Right Thing--Biden Should Step Down

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 I wrote this on Monday, 7/1, four days after the disastrous debate. A lot of reflection and a lot of emerging debate on the aftermath of Jo...
June 28, 2024

Trump as a Vessel for Some of the Worst Instincts in Human Beings

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    This is a bold assertion.    And I would hasten to add that Trump is also the  vessel  for some of the good instincts in people.     The...
June 27, 2024

Abraham Lincoln--A Call to Honor the Rule of Law and the Principles of the Declaration of Independence--Why Joe Biden Needs to be Reelected

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I found this to a compelling reminder on the day of the first Presidential Debate. Abraham Lincoln, in a talk he gave at only the age of 29,...
June 25, 2024

Insights from the Demise of Ancient Civilizations

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    I thoroughly enjoyed Victor Davis Hanson’s  The End of Everything:    How Wars Descend into Annihilation .     It gave me a thumbnail de...
June 24, 2024

The Misbegotten Outcome of Dobbs v. Wade--Looking Back Two Years

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 I am reposting a blog authored two years ago. The outcome is what I expected and feared.  Chief Justice John Roberts Had It Right! If Only ...
June 12, 2024

The Fall, The Recovery and The Renewed Fall of Globalization-Causes and What Does the Future Hold?

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  Professor Tara Zahra 's book,  Against the World:  Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars  traces the cause of the br...

"The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Order" by Gary Gerstle--An Incisive Sobering Picture of the Decline in Trust

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  The Rise and Fall  of the Neo-Liberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market E ra overviews  in a fresh and convincing way the hi...