Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, writing in Hillsdale’s publication Imprimis, does a masterful job in describing the underlying fraud that permeates everything the progressive left is doing to transform American culture. Essentially, they are very insidiously re-writing our history. The project is much like Orwell’s description of “doublespeak”, a way of thinking that defies the […]
Obama’s “Arc of the Moral Universe”
In one of his better recent columns, Charles Krauthammer provides good working definitions of an “idealist” and a “realist” in foreign policy and how to distinguish the two. Essentially, in my words not his, realism is a conservative notion, while idealists have a conservative wing and a liberal wing, generally represented by the so-called neoconservatists […]
Of Flags, Monuments, and History
The flap that has ensued in the wake of the church shootings in Charleston, South Carolina has, it seems, brought an old debate to another level of intense discussion, one that I think can be productive and has so far been mostly civil. Here is my take on it. Despite the often benign use of […]
A Couple of June Anniversaries
There are two dates in early June that should be prominently remembered. One, of course, is D Day, June 6, the day in 1944 when, according to Herbert London of the Hudson Institute, “the U. S. saved Europe from itself” on the beaches of Normandy. I often wonder if our young people have a proper […]