When I visited Afghanistan a decade ago on a NATO press trip, a Marine Corps captain sidled up to me after a visit to an Afghan police training facility. “Everybody […]
Tag: Crisis
Increasing Evidence that Lockdowns and Social Distancing are Harming Kids
Last Thanksgiving, I argued that the state-mandated policy of lockdowns and social distancing to combat Covid-19 was an assault on our very humanity that was having grave consequences the central […]
After Lockdown
These lines are taken from a 1942 speech by Britain’s then Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, but they seem an oddly appropriate description of the current state of the war […]
Climate Science: Seeking Truth or Defending Consensus?
Science, as opposed to pseudoscience, scientific denialism or conspiracy theories, involves a willingness to inspect data and be open about as well as to view hypotheses and the evidence offered […]
Panetta Says We Will Return to Afghanistan
Leon Panetta, a former Chief of Staff to the President, Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, says that we will return to Afghanistan. We will return, he says, […]