Members of the nation’s two largest teachers’ unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), voted for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump by a roughly 5 to 1 margin in 2024.  At the same time, the two unions’ political...

“Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase that comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, when the Danish prince says, “For ’tis the sport to have the engineer, Hoist with his own petard.”  For those unfamiliar with the term, a petard was a small explosive device used to blow...

Well, it’s upon us again – tomorrow night is the start of the ’26-‘27 NFL season.  And while I’m an ardent football fan, I have always found interesting how grown men—otherwise rational and grounded will express behave in ways during the football season they would...

Wars are complicated matters, and whatever one thinks of Donald Trump’s strategy in Iran, one thing is certain; he is not going to make Putin-style mistakes. History has shown us repeatedly that while one nation can conquer and occupy another nation’s land, it is far...

Thomas Sowell observed that if there were a contest to determine which word has done the most damage to people's thinking it would be the word, “Fair.”  Initially I thought who could possibly object to fairness?  But then the thought occurred to me, Sowell was...

The recent Emerson College national poll had Pete Buttigieg leading the pack among prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidates at 19%. Buttigieg has one of the most impressive résumés in American politics—Harvard, Oxford, Rhodes Scholar, Navy Reserve officer,...

Customs change. Laws change. Social conventions change. Our understanding of the world changes. But certain fundamental principles—morality, human decency, dignity, and reverence for life—should not be so easily rewritten to accommodate prevailing political or...

The word fairness has become one of the most persuasive—and least defined—words in modern political vernacular.  Nearly every policy can be called fair if one focuses only on its beneficiaries.  The harder question is whether it remains fair to those who pay the...

Yesterday I wrote about the extraordinary fanaticism displayed by Japan during the closing months of the Second World War, and today I'd like to explain why that history still matters. It is easy—almost natural—to assume that our adversaries value life, prosperity,...

Eight-one years ago today, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare.   Few acts of war have sparked more debate than President Truman’s decision to use ‘the bomb’ against the Japanese Empire.  It’s an event mired in...