Finished another feature for Air&Space/Smithsonian Magazine, "Block that Bomb," online today and linked here . It describes a...

Writers have been calling for World War II-style unity lately, but seem puzzled: how did Americans achieve the apparent, single-minded unity...

Since I'm an analogy guy the notion of masks "to protect you from me, and me from you" reminded me of what I learned about an ...

Continuing a mini-series on lessons from WW2 .... Rationing is a dirty word in a consumocracy like ours. But it’s never been all that far fr...

Commentator P.J. O’Rourke once wrote that giving power and money to government is like handing over a bottle of whiskey and the car keys to ...

Here in Minnesota one of our family's favorite stops is the Corps of Engineers' Marine Museum at Canal Park in Duluth. Here's a ...

In a 2018 post, "The Lecture I Never Gave," I laid out the concept of the  Mistake-Maker's Club . I chose that blog title beca...