Occupation: Historian Birth: September 5, 1953
California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth ….
Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narro….
Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and saf….
Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies,….
I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke..
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when….
After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distrac….
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve….
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want..
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prov….
Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs..
It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never ..
Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues..
Ancient wisdom: deal in personal trust; your word is your bond; avoid extremes; treat the money you invest for others as something sacred; don't take….
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all..
Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive ind….
The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest fri….
Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners;….
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign ….
Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the si….
I think the Democrat Party is taking its cue from the media. When the media has a narrative, whether it's the use of profanity, the Democratic Party ….