Gov. DeSantis warns bad changes are coming Gov. Ron DeSantis warns we’re at risk of tugging the nation into a “hell” of “Woke Marxism.” It raised the prospect of a dystopian future that had escaped me until now. Marx himself … Read More
I’ve got a couple of author readings coming up. I’ll be reading from my book, Something Like Treason, at the Windsor Gardens Book Club in Aurora, Colorado on April 7 and (being something of a one-trick pony) doing a lecture … Read More
And tearing the corner off integration Despite the hoarding habits of certain federal officials, The National Archives still has a big inventory. Military history stuff. And baseball stuff. It marked the start of spring training, for example, by publishing Babe … Read More
Our mentally disturbed candidates Governor Ron DeSantis texted me the other day. He was “stunned.” Not just disturbed or worried. STUNNED. Democrats had recklessly committed millions to defeat the Republican Senate candidate in Nevada. Can he really be as disturbed … Read More
We not only repeat history, we copy it I’m told that studying history is a good way to avoid repeating it. But, as a whole, it’s not working out that way. Studying history has done little to prevent us from repeating … Read More
Some things in history do repeat themselves History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes. Mark Twain originally wrote that. Or not. This being the post-truth age, his authorship, too, has been questioned. But some things in history do repeat themselves. The … Read More
Like, 425,000 of Them I’ve been talking to book clubs and groups about “Something Like Treason,” which, of course, is about some pro-German U.S. soldiers during World War II. Until climate change became evident to enough people, World War II … Read More
Big lies, of course, reliably spring from money, power, and/or sex. The more outrageous they are, however, the more passionately we come to believe them. Count me among the befuddled. Why we believe these things, fall for the same … Read More
One Man’s War is another Man’s Movie I do love World War II. No, not the meat-grinding blood, torture, cruelty, death, and heartache that it was. But let some character seem to die or spy in a war book, movie, … Read More
I thought I had settled on a good book title. Among other things, however, it also seemed to produce an apparently irresistible urge for people to ask, “why was it only something like treason.” World War II was well before … Read More