Between my breakfast and the Wall Street Journal, I get all my daily requirements. To start my day, I need a good balanced breakfast. But, to start my business day, I need my copy of the Wall Street Journal. The Journal gives me all the business information and background I need. So, every morning I […] Read more

The greatest cataclysm in human history grew out of ancient and ordinary human emotions: anger and arrogance and bigotry, victimhood and the lust for power. And it ended because other human qualities — courage and perseverance and selflessness, faith, leadership, and the hunger for freedom — combined with unimaginable brutality to change the course of […] Read more

On this day in 1938, Marians invaded Grovers Mill, NJ—at least that’s what one and one-half million radio listeners believed. H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds was performed in the style of a news alert on CBS by 23 year old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe […] Read more

Chapter Two A fire was already laid in the hearth when Alexandra and Peter finally arrived home. Supper was on the table and Molensa was just starting to pour some wine into a simple iron goblet at the head of the table. Peter noticed there were two extra place settings, each sporting a goblet of […] Read more

Two A fire was already laid in the hearth when Alexandra and Peter finally arrived home. Supper was on the table and Molensa was just starting to pour some wine into a simple iron goblet at the head of the table. Peter noticed there were two extra place settings, each sporting a goblet of wine. […] Read more

Mostly cloudy, breezy and colder today. Frigid tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow. Today colder high 28 low 7 Tuesday breezy and frigid high 18 low 12 Wednesday Not so cold high 32 low 16 Thursday mostly cloudy high 31 low 20 Friday, morning snow high 27 low 16 […] Read more

They called it the Second Rome. A great city astride Europe and Asia and it’s vast empire which would preserve Greco-Roman culture and transmit it to the West when Rome itself lay in barbarian hands. The Byzantine Empire, this time on The Western Tradition […] Read more

If you thought you could get invited to the White House, say, for a state dinner, would you give it a try? After all, you’re paying your share for the spreads they put on there, so you’ve got a right to be halfway curious about what they’re like. And in case you’ve got a friend […] Read more

If you thought you could get invited to the White House, say, for a state dinner, would you give it a try? After all, you’re paying your share for the spreads they put on there, so you’ve got a right to be halfway curious about what they’re like. And in case you’ve got a friend […] Read more