There Is Nothing New Under The Sun.

The Fact Is That America Has Been At Her Most Prosperous When Government And The Private Sector Have Been Not At War, But In A Wary, If Often Underplayed, Alliance. History Is Unmistakable On This Point.

As A Southerner Born After The Epic Events Of The Civil Rights Movement, I've Always Wondered How On Earth People Of Good Will Could Have Conceivably Lived With Jim Crow - With The Daily Degradations, The Lynchings In Plain Sight, And, As The Movement Gathered Force, With The Fire Hoses And The Police Dogs And The Billy Clubs.

The Perennial Conviction That Those Who Work Hard And Play By The Rules Will Be Rewarded With A More Comfortable Present And A Stronger Future For Their Children Faces Assault From Just About Every Direction. That Great Enemy Of Democratic Capitalism, Economic Inequality, Is Real And Growing.

Sometimes Paranoids Have Enemies, And Conspiracies Are Only Laughable When They Fail To Materialize.

Part Of What I Loved - And Love - About Being Around Older People Is The Tangible Sense Of History They Embody. I'm Interested In Military History, For Instance, Because Both My Grandfathers Fought In World War Ii. I'm Interested In Writing Because One Of Those Grandfathers Wrote Books.