In the 1960s, wearing the uniform of the United States Army, my mission was unambiguous: our job was to stand against and deter communist expansion. We understood the stakes of the Cold War, and we trusted that America’s heartland—steeped in self-reliance, faith, and a fierce dedication to free markets—would remain …
For decades, a sanitized, contemporary orthodoxy has sought to rewrite human history into a simplistic morality play starring one allegedly unique oppressor and a cast of permanent victims. The latest casualty of this cultural revisionism is Eli Steele’s new documentary, White Guilt—a film that has drawn immediate, predictable fury from …
For decades, American political culture and immigration law have rested on a comfortable, idealistic assumption: That anyone who immigrates to the United States will naturally assimilate into our constitutional republic and make our reverence for free speech, individual liberty, and the separation of church and state their highest civic priorities. …
Banned Books Week ended last week, and commentary across media and academia predictably focused on contemporary culture wars, school library challenge lists, and debates over modern content. Yet, amid the noise of this routine exercise, a far more pervasive and intellectually dishonest form of censorship is being overlooked: the ongoing …
In the cloak-and-dagger world of intelligence, the most important rule about sharing information is also the simplest: “The need to know.” Decades ago, while serving with the U.S. Army Security Agency in Germany, that rule governed every second of our lives. From the physical security surrounding our specialized intercept hardware …
I spent almost 10 years of my journalistic career covering Japan—a place long considered inscrutable by Westerners, even though today’s decidedly Westernized Japan is about as inscrutable as Iowa. During those years, I watched Japanese leaders wrestle with a foreign policy hamstrung by a constitution that essentially prohibits war as …
During my career with the Chicago Tribune, I covered my share of criminal and civil trials. One thing I learned early on was to watch the jury for telltale reactions that might indicate how jurors were processing the evidence. Did they express any emotions? Shock? Sympathy? Disgust? Anger? Sadness? Drollness? …
Where are the watchdogs? I have been asking myself that question for months. It is a story every American needs to hear, yet legacy media outlets have decided you don’t need to know. In their view, the annual loss of billions in taxpayer dollars to fraudsters is a Washington “non-story”—a …
While politicians and tech executives wring their hands over how to govern the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, a far more fundamental crisis is unfolding quietly in America’s classrooms. According to recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, nearly a third of high school seniors cannot read well …
Americans have short memories. Very short. It’s only been 25 years since Muslim terrorists launched the deadliest attack on American soil in 250 years, yet many Americans (especially Muslim-Americans) seem oblivious to that event and instead are eager to denigrate our nation as a toxic cauldron of white supremacy and …