Righteous, fuming, long bottled up anger when finally released does not have an attractive history. Just look at the Union Army’s burning of Atlanta, Mussolini’s fate at the hands of a raging Italian crowd, the shaved heads of French women who consorted with the Nazis, Saddam ...read more

Eleven of my dad’s first cousins fought for the United States in World War II, many of them landing on the shores of Europe during or immediately following the Allied invasion of Normandy. Cousin Arthur, having survived Omaha Beach, sent my father, then age 13, an eerily casual ...read more

Under Donald Trump's disastrous tenure as president of the United States, opinions of American have plummeted around the world. A Pew Research Center poll confirms that people around the world have less confidence in Trump’s leadership than they have for dictators Vladimir ...read more