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Affirmation now substitutes for accomplishment. Young Western women's obsession with words of affirmation is killing them. Young women are in social freefall, disconnected from classic American society. Addiction, self-harm, deviant behavior, anti-social personality...

Why should we care about North Korea; that's a question many will ask. Our world is full of flashpoints. There are so many that it is difficult to focus on the ones that matter at any particular cross-section of time. This is where average Americans stop reading. In a...

Few people I know trust our government to be truthful. The reasons can certainly be debated, but not the reality of the level of intentional deceit perpetrated against us by our leaders. Perhaps the greatest lie of consequence is an executive-level decision by our...

The recent collapse of Syria provides stark evidence that our intelligence apparatus doesn't know everything and, conversely, can't be counted on to provide reliable, actionable advice early enough to avoid surprises. You might believe that while our multiple...

Almost anywhere in the world I've been, there are three prevailing themes I hear over and over: Americans were known to be the most industrious and hard-working people they'd ever seen Wherever Americans went, they brought opportunity and change to those places...

Trump's Wild Bunch returning to power signals not just a change in leadership but a focus on substance over style. Trump's first term had a steep learning curve, and it showed. We could be forgiven if we use his first-term performance as a gauge to measure what to...

Father may know best; however, our government seldom does! I could regale you all day with endless unmet promises by our government—trillions spent on anti-poverty programs that didn't move the needle one inch. When the government screws up, you too rarely hear much...

In a competition, a leaderboard is: A board showing the ranking of leaders Next to watching paint dry, watching the ins and outs of government unfold is a close second. That's precisely how the deep state likes it: deep, murky, and inscrutable. Of course, that's the...

The apartheid government of South Africa fell in 1995. The country faced an existential question: How to reconcile the two sides in such a way that blacks got the justice they believed they deserved without destroying the economic heart of the country that the whites...

In the worst sneak attack we'd ever faced, Japan took us by surprise on December 7th, 1941. The nation's mood then was universally anti-war, with the sentiment to stay out of Europe and not get involved in another foreign war. On that day, an unprepared and enranged...