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  • There Is Greatness in the Past—Despite What Critical Theorists Try to Tell Us

    There Is Greatness in the Past—Despite What Critical Theorists Try to Tell Us2

    I grew up as one of eight pugnacious boys in a family of 12 children. In a family this large, disagreements naturally arise, and Dad set up a boxing ring in the basement to empower us to settle our differences. The older brother got a lefthand boxing glove, the younger got two gloves—that was the

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  • Food Fight: We Made the Mess We’re Now In

    Food Fight: We Made the Mess We’re Now In0

    “Essen!” the old man shouted at me when I refused his wife’s offer of seconds on my supper plate. “Immer essen!” My German was terrible, but I understood him: “Always eat!”            It was 1978, and while staying with a friend in Switzerland, my wife Kris and I had met a

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  • How to Change Someone’s Mind

    How to Change Someone’s Mind3

    I was recently chatting with a group of people when the dialogue drifted to the question of what could be done about the problems in our society. One woman observed that solutions can’t come through force, but rather by “changing how people think.” I believe she’s right. After all, political and cultural wars are won

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