I don’t know who wrote this little treatise entitled “I Never Cared,” but I think it reflects the feelings of millions of Americans today who are fed up with those who want to destroy our way of life, who promulgate the culture of victimhood, who demand that men and boys …
We hear a lot about how “white privilege” is a dominant issue in America today—that, and the racism such alleged privilege portends. According to the white privilege zealots, whites are prosperous and reside at the top of the economic heap, while minorities in America are struggling and barely surviving at …
I am pleased to share this interview that I did a while back with Sarah Creeley of the Online Book Club. I hope you find it thought-provoking. Today’s chat with Sarah features Ronald E. Yates, author of The Lost Years of Billy Battles, Book #3 of the Finding Billy Battles …
I am reposting this slightly updated article by journalist Shari Goodman. She makes many inconvenient, but valid points in this piece about the irrationality and absurdity of “white guilt”–of which I (and millions of other “European-Americans”) have none. Zilch. Zero. Nada. The inane notion of “victimhood” in our country is …
In the past week or so the NYT, the Washington Post, and CNN seem to have found some measure of journalistic integrity and are issuing long-overdue mea culpas for their collective decisions to protect a cerebrally diminished Joe Biden at all costs while ignoring the palpable misconduct of the Biden …
From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans. Why? Part of the answer is attributable to the media—both news and entertainment. Have you noticed, for example, that in almost EVERY film and EVERY commercial, there MUST be at least one or two of …
The other day I read a story that said the New York Times was lamenting the steady decline of freedom of speech in America. I did a double-take. Was that correct? Or was this a typo? I checked out the editorial in the Times. Sure enough, the editorial board of …
It had to happen. A few years ago scientists analyzed more than 1,700 stories from classics like Romeo and Juliet to modern tales like Harry Potter and identified six core plots that form the building blocks of all complex narratives. Okay, now bear with me. Things get rather technical at …
If you have read my blog you know that most of my life—27 years of it to be exact—was spent as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor with the Chicago Tribune. But for another 13 years, after leaving the Tribune, I was a professor, department head, and dean at the …
