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Friday, July 3, 2026

Destined for War: Ancient Greece and the Shadow Over the Twenty-First Century

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  A friend with deep connections in China recommended Graham Allison 's Destined for War after President Xi Jinping warned President T...
Monday, June 29, 2026

A Day at the Imperial War Museum Duxford

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  One of the highlights of my recent visit to England was a bicycle ride from Cambridge to the Imperial War Museum Duxford , one of the fin...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Reading Robert Alter: The Psalms and the Wisdom Books

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  Over the past year I have read two of Robert Alter 's remarkable translations of the Hebrew Bible: The Book of Psalms and, more recen...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

America's 250th Anniversary vs. the Bicentennial

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  My tank, Bad Bitch, on a tank trail on Fort Carson, Colorado , July 1976. On July 4th 1976 I was in a tank in the desert training area on ...
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Friday, June 19, 2026

Nazi Death Camps and C.S. Lewis

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Emily, Me and Cliff Since 2017, I have visited sixteen different Nazi death camps in Germany, Poland, Czechia and France.  A few of them twi...
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Friday, June 12, 2026

Elegy in Blue: Mark Helprin Still Believes in Heroes

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Reading Mark Helprin ’s Elegy in Blue feels like visiting an old friend, a friend who is clearly aging, (as am I) but still his brilliant s...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Stalingrad: War and Peace for the Twentieth Century

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Vasily Grossman ’s Stalingrad is an ambitious novel, and remarkably, it succeeds in its vast ambition. When Grossman set out to tell the st...