Collecting My Thoughts

I've been reading "The personal librarian" the story of J.P. Morgan's curator of his rare books and manuscript collection,...

John Kerry is wrong about a lot, but I think history proves him correct about the 21st century being safer than the 20th, at least so far, a...

What a find!  I was browsing the shelves at Volunteers of American on Henderson Rd. today and found this title by the prolific, incredible...

George Weigel writes that the 19th century ended in August 1914 with the start of WWI and ended in August 1991 with the collapse of the Sovi...

In the 16th through the 19th centuries Arab Muslims captured and sold black Africans to European slavers who then shipped them to the “new w...

The following is a partial review of Thomas Sowell’s book, “Black Rednecks and White Liberals,” and appeared in the October 2005 issue of Fr...

Repeating myself on George W. Bush I wrote this in December 2008 after looking through a Sept. 18, 1939 Life magazine about the WWII we had...

Socialism is a proven failure So why does Obama want it so badly? Maybe he doesn‘t remember the 20th century? "Socialism is the Big Lie...

You look just like your mother When my college roommate met me at the Seattle airport in 1996 after many years of not being together, I said...

Unity, social action and the weakened church of Europe So what was happening to the church in the early 20th century that allowed it to be m...