United States of America

(An excerpt) ...During the winter of AD 408-409, (the barbarian chieftain) Alaric, and his invading barbarian army once again moved north into the Italian peninsula. The army swarmed and pillaged its way south until...

In my forthcoming book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I note that no people untouched by the ancient Greeks ever came up with the notion that the many should rule the few. Based on our founding, we are the...

President Bush, the Younger, made the observation that conducting American foreign policy in the brand new war-torn 21st century was as difficult as playing chess in three dimensions. Now with the escalation of...

I covered Oakland’s occupation march and shut-down for Townhall.com. My deadline was noon the following day. I’ve never had such a tight deadline. But I got it done. This is my take on the state of our endangered...

Liberal progressive politicians and policies have destroyed the black community and family—and no where is this more evident than in Oakland. The damage done has devastated the once-great city.

The following is excerpted from my forthcoming book on the Lessons from Fallen Civilizations.

It’s hard to think of a single government policy that has engendered a more sustained universal outrage then Janet Incompetano’s latest airport security procedures which have produced anecdotes such as a videotape of...

With a wink, Yasser Arafat referred to the “Quraysh Model” in a speech he gave in Arabic to a Palestinian audience shortly after he signed Clinton’s vaunted Oslo Peace Accords and shortly before he issued yet another...

Original article in Townhall Magazine (pdf)

The Confessions of Neo Don Quixote and a Decidedly Over-the-Hill Holden Caulfield

The Confessions of Neo Don Quiote and a Decidedly Over-the-Hill Holden Caulfield

Ah, Dad, I choose to believe that you're not off some place hittin' it long and straight but that you are present now and can hear my voice. And I trust that your many beloved friends and family here today will...

It’s pretty clear that, Victor Davis Hanson, is on a roll. Just as communist sympathizers and apologists of the 60s and 70s, together with their press patrons, were successful in making it worse to call someone a...

For those of us in California who fear we may be losing the culture that was handed down to us from the Enlightenment of Hobbes, Locke, and Smith and of course, our founders, men such as Jefferson and Madison, the...

It had been a banner, breakthrough year for the author and "revolutionist." At a Piedmont hill-top hideaway he called the "Bungalow," Jack London, a boyish man of 27 years, sat down on his wooden stairwell and...