ARTICLES
My Fake Amazon ‘Workbook‘ – May 3, 2024
Give Yahya Sinwar the Eichmann Treatment – Jan 11, 2024
Lights, Cameras and Homes for Veterans – July 26, 2023
The ‘Poor Souls’ Buried Without Their Fathers – May 28, 2023
Social Breakdown Starts With Skipping a Stop Sign – July 25, 2021
The Day That Shook the Earth – July 14, 2020
How the U.S. Won World War II Without Invading Japan – March 8, 2020
Dad, Did You Achieve All Your Life Goals? – August 2, 2019
You Can Limit Death’s Financial Costs, If Not The Emotional Ones – April 27, 2018
Fleeing the Czars, Defying Gravity: A Fourth of July Immigrant Tale – July 2, 2016
The 24 Hours That Rocked U.S. Race Relations – June 10, 2013
Call Them Tiger Students. And Get to Work. – April 4, 2013
Lance Armstrong And Our Unheroic Age – January 21, 2013
Nuclear-Weapon States Aren’t Created Equal – August 27, 2012
FDR’s D-Day Prayer – June 5, 2012
Food Stamps and the $41 Cake – May 17, 2012
The “Dayton” Lesson for America’s Shrinking Military – March 13, 2012
The Myth of Starving Americans – January 30, 2012
Pearl Harbor, Iran and North Korea – December 7, 2011
Remembering the Terror in Mumbai – November 25, 2011
What If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path? – June 20, 2011
Remembering JFK in an Age of Terror – November 22, 2010
A Hiroshima Apology? – August 6, 2010
“Peace Is Our Profession” – April 15, 2010
Why Foreigners Can’t Win in China – March 31, 2010
The Real Rules of War – December 22, 2009
The Missles of October – October 31, 2009
LeMay and the Tragedy of War – May 18, 2009
A Japanese General Rewrites the Past – December 5, 2008
America, the Moon and National Memory – March 16, 2019
Sirhan Sirhan, Forgotten Terrorist – June 5, 2018
Malcolm Gladwell is Wrong about History and the War – September 22, 202o
Where Have All of America’s ‘Wise Men’ Gone? – August 7, 2024
Hamas Clearly Understands Israel’s Commitment to Human Life and Worked Out Its Strategy Accordingly – May 6, 2024
A Haunting Silence: 6 Percent of Americans Are Widowers or Widows, and All Have Walked Through the Door of Devastation – March 20, 2024
Getting My Father To Talk About the War Was a Lost Cause – May 29, 2023
A Holiday Ad to Make Us Feel Good About America – January 3, 2022
A Tale of Two Photos Captures Different Americas – August 30, 2021
With JFK’s Centenary Here, 35th President Appears Stranded in a Bygone Era – May 21, 2017
How Rosy Reports on ISIS Echo Long-Ago Errors That Begat Catastrophes – September 26, 2015
“I Could Stay Here Forever” JFK Murmured on a Visit to the Place That Would Become His Grave – November 20, 2013
How a Terror Attack Against Our Marines – 30 Years Ago This Week – Reverberated Down the Decades – October 21, 2013
Wrinkle in Time – May 29, 2007
Clint’s New Hat – February 23, 2007
Going Down the Tube – October 25, 2006
Wisconsin, What a Race – October 17, 2006
The Conspiratorial Mind – September 29, 2006
One Common Link – March 17, 2006
True Believer – June 6, 2005
April 2005 … April 1945 – April 22, 2005
A Footnote in Decorum on the legacy of George Kennan’s America – March 21, 2005
After Ward Churchill – March 10, 2005
A 10-Year-Old’s Tribute To Carson – January 28, 2005
Greatest Living President? – January 10, 2005
Trinity 2015 – July 16, 2015
The Greatest Liberation – August 17, 2015
Planes Filled the Sky – January 5, 2015
My Dad at War – August 2013
Badger Exceptionalism – November 2012
What Economists Won’t Tell You: Why Competition Works – August 2011
A Parent’s Education – March 2010