One of my favorite essays of all time comes from old-school conservative writer Whitaker Chambers. In the late 1950s he reviewed Ayn Rand’s thousand-page
Category: History
My great grandmother was a Jewish exorcist
As my mother approaches her 101st birthday, her mind is on fire with long-ago memories. Today, she told me the story of her grandmother,
An amazing tribute to Nelson Mandela
In 2012, artist Marco Cianfanelli created a sculpture as a reminder of the fiftieth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s arrest in 1962, and subsequent 27-year
Women’s rights: 94 years and still counting
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State
The 2015 Reagan Ranch calendar just landed in my mailbox
It’s fun to live in a zip code that politicos view as split between Republicans and Democrats. I get phone calls, door knocks and
What we can learn from the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri
When I was in college in 1968, I attended Congressional hearings on the 1967 urban riots (soon to be followed by even more severe
At long last, U.S. says it will sign the Land Mine Treaty
In 1918, shortly after the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson proposed the founding of an international organization dedicated to fostering cooperation
Spanish Lake: Another lesson in failed urban planning
“Spanish Lake” is a new documentary film that looks at the physical, economic and social decline of a suburban neighborhood just north of St.
Frank Wills: Watergate watchman
Please take a moment to remember that 42 years ago today [June 17], a security guard named Frank Wills called the police when he
Please don’t call them suffragettes
When the conversation gets around to women’s history, and the subject is women’s struggle to win the right to vote, you’ll often hear the