2022’s four strategic challenges
As 2022 begins, four strategic challenges to the post-World War II international order generate the psychological ambiguity — meaning plain old human fear — that fosters …
Aunt Lillian’s timely grace
Seventeen years ago, I reprised a Christmas column I’d written in the 1990s for a Texas newspaper.
The original column and the 2004 interpretation celebrated a holiday prayer conceived by my …
The swarm war future?
Aggravated bees attack unfortunate honey seekers from all directions. The mad birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” mastered the tactic, attacking en masse residents of a small Northern California …
A date which will live in infamy
December 7, 1941. “A date which will live in infamy,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it. The attack’s 80th anniversary is this month.
Infamy. Webster’s Dictionary defines infamy as: “evil …