I first visited Taiwan in 1974. It was one of numerous trips I made to the tiny tobacco-leaf-shaped country 100 miles off the coast of mainland China during my career as a Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent. In the mid-1970s, Taiwan was a nervous place. It was caught in a diplomatic …
Covering War: Why Journalists Accept the Risk It was a U.S. senator from California named Hiram Johnson who may have said it best back in 1929: “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Was Johnson the first person to utter those words? Probably not. But those eight words are …
When I observe what is happening to America—the country in which I grew up, in which I was educated, and that I served in the U.S. Army—I am appalled. Anarchy, violence, looting. This is NOT the country I know and love. This is an aberration, a disfigurement of our Republic. …
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I am pleased to share this 5-Star review of The Lost Years of Billy Battles from Artisan Book Reviews. Here is a little about Artisan from its website: “Artisan Book Reviews is passionate about books and the reading experience. Our goal is to provide readers with the very best hand-picked …
I spent nearly 30 years of my life working as a journalist. It was an honor to be a member of what some have called The Fourth Estate. I began my career in the Windy City at the Chicago Tribune. At the time, Chicago was probably Journalism’s most brutal and …
I was looking through some of my old posts yesterday and came across this one. I re-read it and remembered how much sense it made to me at the time. So I have decided to repost it today. I hope you will take a look at it. There’s a lot …
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Most Americans have heard of something called the “1619 Project.” If you are one of those who haven’t, here is what the spurious 3-year-old notion posits in a nutshell: America wasn’t founded in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. It was actually founded in 1619 when the first 20 slaves …
Now, THIS is disgusting. A high school English class in a Fairfax, Virginia school recently instructed students to play “privilege bingo,” in which students were told to check boxes that showed how privileged they were. For example, there were boxes for being white, Christian, male, and able-bodied to identify whether …