In a posted review of Ken Burns’ Revolution documentary, the author expressed how disappointed he was in his high school history class.  His reasoning was if Ken Burns could make this so interesting and enlightening, why couldn't school?  I could write my next book just answering that question. 

Here’s something Trump said last week: “We won World War II, we won World War I, we won everything before that and in between…”. He went...

Current events are providing some vital learning moments about how power really works in the world and how it does not.  Scholars in political science, economics, and game theory will have a lot to work with in the coming years based upon what is happening now.  Most of us are not scholars in any of those fields, so cannot claim to provide explanations which resolve into coherent theories.  This should not prevent any of us from expressing our understanding to the best of our

The primacy of the individual, the great accomplishment of Western thought, is almost over. If we look at Eastern thought, the interest...

{We are in a courtroom – judge, jury, prosecuting attorney, defense attorney, defendant, bailiff, a few people in the gallery.}   Judge –...

Wm. Gregory Harman                                                    Politico, admittedly a Left-leaning source, reported in early March...