In the “Taking Back our Schools” Department, we should have figured out by now we need to be more face-to-face about the changes we want to see returned to our public schools. We’re outlining a teaching program at VeteransTales.org, “Vets…
The Nature of the Dark Side
The Private Life is Dead Remember Commander Strelnikov in the film classic, “Dr Zhivago” (1965)? He was the intellectual communist who had turned into a Red military commander in the civil war that followed the October Revolution. His comment “the private…
Thomas Paine, A Common Sense Curriculum
I wonder if millennials even know who Thomas Paine was. In the early 1960s I studied American History in college, as a required core subject, courses even engineering students from India had to take in order to get a degree. I’m not…