What follows is drawn from a story I filed to the Chicago Tribune a few days after the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Last Thursday, on June 4, I posted my recollections of that terrible day on my Substack homepage. If you have not read that piece, I hope you …
During President Trump’s state visit to China last month, I wondered if he would be allowed to stroll through Tiananmen Square, a place that 37 years ago was awash with the blood and bodies of thousands of Chinese students and workers who were engaged in anti-government, pro-democracy demonstrations. That night, …
Considering the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) continued threats against Taiwan, its menacing alliance with Russia and Iran, its unsuccessful attempts to dominate in Venezuela, Brazil, and a few other Latin American nations, and the thousands of spies and military operatives China dispatched to our nation during the feckless Biden Administration, …
I read an essay the other day stating that a new Department of Labor report on men found that the American labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. This means close to one-third of all men of working age are not included in the …
A while back, I published a post about a poll that asked the question: “Who writes better? Men or Women?” What a hazardous, if not lethal, question. The poll was produced by Grammarly.com, a proofreading software program for word processors such as Microsoft Word. As you might expect, its conclusions …
Recently, I received an email from a reader reminding me that while America will celebrate its 250th birthday this July 4, this year is also the 135th anniversary of the murder of 297 Lakota Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. These …
In a recent email exchange with one of my Substack subscribers, I was asked if I think the independent media (such as the Substack community I am building) can provide a “de-escalation” space that legacy media has largely abandoned. I am not optimistic about today’s independent media. Most of its …
Writing about race and the rapidly shifting racial complexion and composition of America is a dangerous exercise. No matter how you discuss it or describe it, if you are white, you are almost certain to be called a racist by easily triggered leftists who prefer that you keep silent about …
I have never believed the leftist maxim that insists diversity is “our strength.” Instead, I see it as divisive, with our nation being split into cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, and political tribes who are essentially at war with one another. How is that a “strength?” How can we be a …
(This is a follow-up to the story I posted yesterday on the 51st anniversary of the Fall of Saigon in 1975. ) After several dozen others and I were evacuated on April 29th, 1975, from the hulking Military Assistance Command-Vietnam building at Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut airbase, I filed my …