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The Coming Settlement in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is remarkably similar to Josef Stalin’s war against Finland — the Winter War of 1939-1940 — which began on...

Ken Burns’ Revolution Documentary Subverts Simplistic Stories

Was the American Revolution Christian from the beginning? It's not in the founding documents or in the Founders' religions.

Plorables and Spicables: Life without De’s

Q: Is menting billatating? A: Nothing is more structive and trimental than menting. It pletes and teriorates our brains.

“Everyone You Meet Is Fighting A Great Battle.”

There’s a kind of unspoken conspiracy to ignore how difficult life is, or to reframe it as something romantic — a heroic challenge to overcome on our way to the good life. In this conspiracy we each try to hide our scars, even from those closest to us and sometimes even from ourselves.

Alki and Plymouth: Tale of Two Thanksgivings

The Duwamish helped supplement settlers’ pinched diet with fresh fish, fowl, game, clams, and bulbs. They taught Mary Ann Denny, too sick to nurse baby Rolland, how to keep him alive with clam nectar.

Communism, Socialism, and Kitchen-Sink Trumpism (Explained)

Trumpism in the end is a grab-bag -- not conservatism, not libertarianism, not even populism. A little socialism won’t hurt America, but everything-sink Trumpism does.

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