The Bedford Incident, a 1962 novel and 1965 movie, is a parable of great-power risk, required reading/viewing for 21st Century political leaders. The Bedford Incident presents the fictional story of an intense game of cat-and-mouse between American and Soviet naval vessels off the coast of Greenland....
Social media is the most wonderful delusion invention of the 21st Century. From a friend: “I was shopping at the mall just before Christmas and walked past this videogame store called GameStop. It was selling games that you can easily download from a home computer. My...
Today’s TLR is about democracy. It’s not about politics. It’s also not about the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Trump. Although both politics and impeachment are a part of America’s democratic machinery – the latter falling within the domain of Congress and the Supreme...
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. – John Maynard Keynes Capitalism again in 2021 is under attack. Any number of Covid-19 chroniclers are pointing to China’s 2020 economic...
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says that America’s government cannot limit peoples’ right to speak freely. The government cannot censor speech (other than criminal speech) and it cannot regulate the right to say, or not to say, whatever an American wants to say...