Superman was my hero. Many of us spend our lives looking for our version of a superhero. Sometimes they are clergy, teachers, soldiers, and even presidents. This exercise is a favorite pastime of Americans. Look for someone to idolize, build them up, then find a flaw and drop them. We love ...
My childhood home was an hour southeast of Pittsburgh, which was, at that time, one of the top steel-producing centers in the industrialized world and a primary target for any war. The U.S. Department of Defense had surrounded Pittsburgh with Nike missile bases that were supposed to destroy ...
What is the connection between Project 2025, Kevin Roberts and the Heritage Foundation, Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, and former President Donald Trump, who often praises Orb谩n鈥檚 leadership? For one thing, their connections highlight a shift in conservative strategies and ...
I had a grandad Jacob and a granddad Jacobs. Okay, well, Jacob was one鈥檚 first name and Jacobs another鈥檚 last. It wasn鈥檛 the real last name. That was Iacoboni, but Americanized Iacoboni became Jacobs. My Italian family tree took us back to a little, beautiful village in Italy in the ...
With the changing of the guard in Washington, D.C., on the near horizon, it seemed only fitting that I dedicate a little time to words that we will not be hearing very often after our current president retires to his home in Delaware. Seriously, this is not hyperbole. No one definitively ...
As the 13th-century Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri ("Dante") once wrote, 鈥淔rom a little spark may burst a flame.鈥� We are here at a time when we have access to every piece of information ever compiled. We hold our electronic devices that beam transmissions into outer space ...