Andy Ngo
After the American defeat in Vietnam in 1975, the communists confiscated the homes, businesses, property, and savings of those south Vietnamese supposed to be "counterrevolutionaries." Hundreds of tho...
5 Loka 20217min
Science and Séances
"Follow the science" and the "experts"—became popular maxims in America in the strange years 2020 & 2021, as government bureaucrats, politicians, media stars, and celebrities—themselves no scientists ...
28 Syys 20217min
What's Love Got To Do With It?
The first duty of civic education is to teach each new generation of Americans what it is about the country that makes it worthy of the last full measure of devotion; or in my odd way of putting it, w...
21 Syys 20214min
We the People
September 17 is Constitution Day in America because on that day in 1787, after 4 months of deliberations, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Independence Hall in Philadelphia proposed t...
14 Syys 20216min
9/11
Twenty years have come and gone since September 11, 2001 became "9/11." It is a day not just for mourning victims but for honoring heroes, those on Flight 93 and the many civilians and first responder...
7 Syys 20216min
Mother of Exiles
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses . . ." These are among the most world-famous lines of any work of American literature, and whoever hears or reads them identifies them immediately w...
31 Elo 20216min
Liberty for All
The Statue of Liberty has come to seem as much a part of America as the Grand Canyon. The oldest rocks of the Grand Canyon were formed by forces of nature some two billion years ago, and the Statue of...
24 Elo 20217min
Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Franklin County Virginia just a few years before the Civil War began. With heroic determination, he got himself an education and went on to found the Tuskegee ...
17 Elo 20216min
