Author: articlesprosport
Critics say social engineering has infiltrated the armed forces, putting readiness at risk.
As a U.S. Army medic in the early 1970s, my father worked with wounded veterans who were suffering from what we would now call Post-Traumatic…
How is it that early 20th Century writers like Eliot and Chesterton are capturing the essence of ordinary people’s discontent today?
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, where the sun…
It may not be a good idea for the male front runners to pile on the one woman front runner for the nomination.
After celebrating Tuesday’s takeover of Virginia’s legislature and the Kentucky governorship, the liberal establishment appears poised to crush its biggest threat: the surging candidacy of…
Will the arid West’s farms and settlements thrive for another century? Not if we don’t take seriously John Wesley Powell’s ideas.
All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears. Joan Didion, Notes From a Native Daughter Idahos…
Also: Re-reading John le Carré, and more.
Washingtons new language museum, Planet Word, will open on May 31st: The museum will be housed in the historic Franklin School Building, built by architect…
We can all be grateful that the Cold War ended, but we shouldn’t delude ourselves with talk of victory.
Andrew Bacevich describes how the U.S. learned all the wrong lessons from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War:…
He offers conservatives a way to reject modernity without spiraling into fascism or socialism.
Only the reactionary is really capable of being a moderate. Only we stand sufficiently aloof from modernity to judge it dispassionately. An healthy pessimism inoculates…
Legends of Holy Russia
I came across that painting above earlier this week in the Russian State Museum. It stopped me in my tracks. The reproduction above, from the…
The assassination of Abu al-Ata came as a surprise to PIJ leaders, who rushed to announce that their group was now at war with Israel.
The Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), whose senior commander Bahaa Abu al-Ata was killed by Israel on Tuesday, has been causing headaches not only for…
Trump joked that his rating in Israel is 98%, and “if anything happens here, I will take a trip over to Israel to run for prime minister there.”
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, mocked the political stalemate in Israel, in which Israelis “keep having elections [but] nobody is elected.” A…