Will woke Montpelier bankrupt the National Trust?
(Oct. 17) When the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation meets later this week, high on its list of concerns certainly will be the parlous financial state of […]
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Still shakin’ it boss, still shakin’ it
(Oct. 14, “Your Land” culture short) https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cool-hand-shake It has been three months since a spate of stories announced that handshakes, supposedly banished forever due to COVID-19, were making a comeback. […]
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Joe Manchin imitates Simon & Garfunkel character
(Sept. 28) Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is being roundly pilloried for getting nothing in return for enabling his party leaders to enact a budget-busting, IRS-unleashing monster of a leftist budget […]
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Madison’s flute, twerking, and Madison’s house besmirched
James Madison stays in the news, but one report is off key. (Two columns, with full pieces embedded in the headlines.) Story about Madison’s flute (and twerking) is really less […]
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Self-proclaimed ‘termites’ eat James Madison’s foundation
James Madison’s Montpelier Foundation is the subject of two pieces below, the first a MAJOR investigative piece involving dozens of documents and double-digits interviewees, which was the =cover story for […]
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Bard’s ‘Beth Rickey Award’ honors anti-Taliban worker
(Sept. 12) One of the most courageously principled women I ever knew, Beth Rickey of Louisiana, died alone at age 53 of heart failure in a New Mexico hotel room […]
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August columns and editorials
One and Three Quarters Cheers for the Late Mikhail Gorbachev (Aug. 31) As education unions go woke, real learning suffers (Aug. 30) The Left’s gender-bending is getting tiresome (Aug. 29) […]
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Forget MJ and LeBron: Bill Russell was the best
(August 1) The greatest basketball player who ever lived was Bill Russell, who died Sunday at age 88. Apologies to Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and other claimants to […]
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A plague of public rudeness
(August 4) COVID-19 may be the most deadly plague of the past few decades, but the most widespread and growing pestilence may be that of public rudeness. Everywhere one goes […]
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The Heritage Foundation tackles the rot at Monticello and Montpelier
(July 27, EXCLUSIVE) In a paper released concurrently with this Washington Examiner column, which exclusively reports it as a first (at this link), Heritage Foundation scholar Brenda Hafera writes that […]
