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  • Is Boredom Driving Our Culture of Lunacy?

    Is Boredom Driving Our Culture of Lunacy?10

    “Somebody’s boring me,” poet Dylan Thomas once commented. “I think it’s me,” he added. Were you to become a fly on the wall, or in this age of electronic wonders, a tiny drone, you might observe my daily life and decide that I’m the most boring human on planet earth. I follow the same daily

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  • Is Biden Reenlisting in the Forever Wars?

    Is Biden Reenlisting in the Forever Wars?0

    Thursday, in its first military action, the Biden Pentagon sent two U.S. F-15Es to strike targets of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia just inside the eastern border of Syria. The U.S. strikes were in retaliation for a missile attack on a U.S. base in Irbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, which killed a contractor and

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  • Is Biden Really the Lincoln of Our Time?

    Is Biden Really the Lincoln of Our Time?0

    Traveling to Philadelphia Tuesday, President Joe Biden laid out in apocalyptic terms the gravity of the “threat” to American democracy from Republican efforts to reform and rewrite state election laws. We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole. Since the Civil War. The Confederates back then

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  • Is Biden Prepared to Lose Afghanistan?

    Is Biden Prepared to Lose Afghanistan?0

    Is President Joe Biden prepared to preside over the worst U.S. strategic defeat since the fall of Saigon in 1975? For that may be what’s at stake if Biden follows through on the 2020 peace deal with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by May 1—just two months from now.     

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  • Is Bernie Right About Education in Cuba?

    Is Bernie Right About Education in Cuba?0

    Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spent a large part of the last week defending earlier statements he made regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba. While denouncing the dictatorship of Castro, he praised the social programs that were implemented under his rule, notably with regards to literacy. He pointed out that there was a rapid increase in literacy rates in Cuba

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  • Is Berkeley the Fort Sumter of a New Civil War?

    Is Berkeley the Fort Sumter of a New Civil War?0

    Could the college town where the “Free Speech Movement” began be the place where it ends? That’s the question asked by Frances Dinkelspiel, writing in The Daily Beast, after covering the confrontation this weekend between far-left anti-free-speech groups and far-right pro-free-speech groups. “As a reporter who has covered Berkeley since 2009, when two journalists and

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