When I was a college student, there was a required reading program called Western Civilization that exposed us to 3,000 years of Western thought and the writings and ideas of a broad range of individuals, from Adolf Hitler to Thomas Hobbes, from Karl Marx to Baron de Montesquieu. The idea …
I don’t know many journalists who have been so effective at uncovering government fraud that lawmakers in one state are going to extraordinary lengths to pass a new law that would essentially criminalize investigative journalism and make it illegal to investigate fraud there. In fact, as far as I know, …
Dear Reader, Welcome back to our Saturday serialization of The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book #2 in the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy). Book #2 takes Billy’s story to a larger global stage. It leaves the violence of late 19th-century Kansas behind as Billy is thrust into the sweeping historical …
I received the commentary below from the son of a WW II Marine who was killed in action on Iwo Jima and who was awarded a Purple Heart and Navy Cross posthumously. He and I exchange emails on topics of interest—most often related to the military, social issues, politics, and …
Dear Reader, Welcome back to our Saturday serialization of The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book #2 in the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy). Book #2 takes Billy’s story to a larger global stage. It leaves the violence of late 19th-century Kansas behind as Billy is thrust into the sweeping historical …
In 1966, the year I returned from almost 4 years of active service with the U.S. Army Security Agency in West Germany, a new movie was released called “The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming.” Directed by Norman Jewison, the film centers on a Soviet submarine, the “Sprut,” that …
Dear Reader, Welcome back to our Saturday serialization of The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book #2 in the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy). ForeignCorrespondent is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Book #2 takes Billy’s story to a …
It’s not easy watching the country I grew up in and served as a soldier doing its level best to self-destruct. But that is what is happening today as socialists and communists scamper like cockroaches from their dreary radical crevices into the bright electoral light of our 250-year-old constitutional republic. …
Dear Reader: Welcome back to our complimentary Saturday serialization of The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book #2 in the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy). Book #2 takes Billy’s story to an even larger global stage. It leaves the violence of late 19th-century Kansas behind as Billy is thrust into the …
Dear Reader, Beginning in May 2025, many of you joined me on a weekly journey through the early, flinty life of William Fitzroy Raglan Battles in Book #1 of my trilogy. The response to Billy’s episodic memoirs was incredibly rewarding, and I’ve frequently been asked what happens next to the …