August 21, 2016 Mr. Engel is chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. He has become a household name in America regarding news from the Middle East. Thinking that I could learn something interesting from his new book, I ordered my copy,...
August 14, 2016 When I first signed up for a Political Science class in college, I took a course on American Government. I wanted to know about the party of Abraham Lincoln and that of Harry Truman. But our cynical professor curtly tossed...
August 11, 2016 “Impious Mars rages through the world: Just as when the chariots stream from the starting gates, Add to their speed each lap, and the charioteer tugging vainly at the bridles, Is dragged on by the horses, the chariot not...
July 1, 2016 The ancient Prophet Ezekiel said the Lord plunked him down in a valley “full of dry bones” and asked him, “Can these bones live?” If the dry bones of dead Syrian dictator Hafiz al-Assad could live, they would surely be...
June 23, 2016 “Anything is better than lies and deceit!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Is there no limit to the pool of deceit that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan won’t dive into—and pop up lying even worse? His latest devious dip...
June 9, 2016 Summer is upon us and if you are looking for a good book to read make sure it is Ataturk by Lord Kinross. Although old, it is refreshingly “new,” that is, if you subscribe to the human events as cyclical in nature or as a...