As a boy growing up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mr. Newt Gingrich was very fond of animals. When he was able, he enjoyed visiting the Philadelphia Zoo. At age 11, he decided that Harrisburg needed its own zoo. Wildwood Park in Harrisburg was a natural location for a zoo and the State of Pennsylvania could build and…

Historically, colleges and universities have been known for civil discourse and intellectual debate—but something has changed. Clinical Full Professor of Management at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business Stanley K. Ridgley shares what that something is in his insightful and candid book “Brutal Minds.” “Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities”…

James A. Garfield, the 20th president, only lasted 200 days in office before an assassin’s bullet ended his tenure. Aside from being fateful, his presidency may seem all but forgetful. This may be true. But there was a life that led to that presidency and the egregious moment on July 2, 1881; and it is…

Before reality television, people satisfied the urge to see new places and do new things by reading about the exploits of risk takers, including explorers. Before the internet or radio, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the way to do that was through the newspaper. Back then, the modern mass-market daily newspaper was…

The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War has been a two-fold conflict. It has been a physical military conflict within the borders of Ukraine, while at the same time it has been a propaganda war within and without those borders, reaching (or “overreaching”) across Europe and across the Pacific into America. Owen Matthews has been covering the fight…

Leonydus Johnson book’s “Raising Victims: The Pernicious Rise of Critical Race Theory” is a good salve for treating the cuts and scrapes on a national psyche bleeding from ideologies that seek to divide and separate. In his thoughtful and well-researched book Johnson quietly disassembles the shaky foundation of Critical Race Theory (CRT) with calculated logic,…

War creates cultural collisions. In Si Sheppard’s militaristic comparison and contrast of Ottoman soldiers and those of Australia and New Zealand, the cultural divisions are easy to notice even before the collision. Sheppard utilizes battles from World War I in his book “ANZAC Soldier Versus Ottoman Soldier: Gallipoli and Palestine 1915–18” to point out the…

Those who do not value tradition usually speak of “ancient wisdom” with squinty eyes and a wrinkled nose, as if they are being force-fed something that tastes bad. The implicit judgment of these people is that such scornful attitudes are indicative of “modern foolishness.” But the distinction is something of a false dichotomy. When looking…

As of this writing, former Kansas Congressman and director of the CIA and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has not announced that he is in the race to be the Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election. The memoir of his time in the Trump administration, “Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I…

There can hardly be a better example of a clash of civilizations than when the Mongols and Europeans met on the battlefield. The Mongols, led by the Khans, established the largest contiguous land empire in human history, stretching across approximately 9 million square miles. Stephen Turnbull’s new book “Mongol Warrior Versus European Knight: Eastern Europe…