A furor erupted when Dr. Daniel Ellsburg released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times on June 13, 1971, forty-nine years ago. Commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the report covered the history of America’s political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945-1967. It exposed the many lies and deceptions perpetrated by the […]
Last year, I read “Paris 1919, Six Months that Changed the World,” Margaret MacMillan’s best seller published in 2001. This book told about the Treaty of Versailles signed on June 28, 1919, which ended World War I. She covered the difficult challenges, personalities, issues, and disappointments that the Allies confronted. I thought the treaty’s main […]
Benjamin Disraeli has always fascinated me. He was the only British prime minister of Jewish ancestry although he converted to the Anglican Church at age twelve. In class conscious England during the 19th Century, his rise seems unimaginable. Yet despite being a dandy, an author, and not attending the elite schools, he led the Conservative […]
I never knew what a pussy hat was until my wife and I walked in the Women’s March around Washington D.C. on January 21, 2017. It is a pink cap with pussy cat ears mocking our president’s salacious language towards women. The march was not anti-Trump but pro-women to protect their rights and to end […]
During the Vietnam war, I wondered why no one in the military or government understood that America picked the wrong side. Didn’t anybody recognize the many errors our country made leading up to and throughout the Vietnam Conflict? And why did so many pay homage to the moribund “domino theory?” When Daniel Ellsburg released […]
