White Privilege and the Privilege “to be American”- (Ser Americano)
For many years now the American academy has been besieged with the theme of "white privilege," which holds to the notion that being born white carries its own guilt based on a sense of superiority which even the most...
Artemus Ward, America’s Original “Cable Guy”, and his Interview With President Lincoln
As you know, there's lots of talk about war right now, and just like 1860, it's occurring at two levels, not one. And in that first war it was the bottom 70% who carried...
How Veterans can Redirect much of America’s Public Education
...and a new Education Model in America can provide both employment and justification for veterans service.
For a few years I managed a veterans website called "VeteransTales". It was constructed by my author-friend and colleague,...
Word-Pictures of What Nazis Pretending to be Civilized Look and Sound Like
"The Stranger" was a 1946 post-war film noir vehicle about a Nazi SS mass murderer who had escaped to America, and of course, the War Crimes Commission was looking for him. Orson Welles directed...
Millennials Who can Save America
My sons were in college and I was in the old USSR studying Soviet ways when Millennials were born. (The early 1990s.) Personally I know very little about them, except by observing them during...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...