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“Funny how secrets travel. I’d start to believe, if I were to bleed.” – lyrics written by David Bowie from the album Outside Shawn Helton 21st Century Wire In the days before the US presidential election in November 2016, Wikileaks revealed a new string...

The following by David Brog is reposted here with permission: The Failure of the American Jewish Left by David Brog Middle East Quarterly Winter 2013 http://www.meforum.org/3358/ american-jewish-left In early September 2012, many in the pro-Israel...

Abraham Lincoln concluded his first inaugural address with a hopeful message. “We are not enemies, but friends,” he declared. “We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory...

In higher education, whether as affordable land-grant state colleges, tuition-free municipal universities, grants to children of the poor or need-blind admissions, access to learning was at least prized as a right, not a privilege. As tuition and administration...

http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=8932 Quote: By Angelo M. Codevilla | Posted: Mon. November 28, 2016 “Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.” “Yes, it is. But it is politically correct.” The notion of political correctness...