In the foreign policy and national security business, it’s usually better to be clear unless being vague is necessary to your purpose. Sometimes national leaders are opaque when they are considering actions they do not want to telegraph. However, in Ukraine, we should be explicit. Indeed, being explicit is exactly what the United Read more…
When I was born in 1951, Democrat Harry Truman was our President. He won his race in 1948 amid a contentious election with Governor Thomas Dewey of New York. Dewey was favored to win, but Truman’s dogged campaigning snatched victory from what appeared to be the jaws of defeat. In 1952, General Read more…
Normally, people are too busy with life to consider the fate of martyrs. The word “martyr” means “witness.” The process of bearing witness doesn’t necessarily lead to the death of the witness, but it often has. For centuries, Christians have experienced a brutal end as they were imprisoned, tortured, or killed for their Read more…
Increasingly, Americans have an identity crisis. You can see it primarily in the way that people define themselves. We, of course, all have an identity of one sort or another. People find their identity in many things. Religion, values, family, friends, work, and recreation. Hopefully that identity is grounded in positive, lawful, and productive activities Read more…
Life often involves a desire to grasp or obtain something that in the end was not a very good idea. Many of us had parents who shared this admonition with us when we craved this or that thing. We were warned—wisely—that the things we yearn for rapidly become the things we abjure Read more…