Nixon’s final years as president sucked for Nixon. As the Watergate scandal intensified, the president can hardly be blamed for having reached for a drink. But apparently, the situation was so bad that when Nixon fell victim to growing bouts of insomnia and fits of drunken rage, some Washington insiders started taking bets on when […]
Today, I find myself trying to reconcile two extremely different realities. When some look at my 2019,…
Three decades ago, my grandfather agreed to give my father my mother’s hand in marriage, on one…
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During World War I, the British government recruited literary and academic celebrities to write pamphlets…
The general stood on the battlefield before his army. He was draped in lion skin with a club in hand. Under a beaming sun touched by the shadows of his 100 thousand men, enemy troops could be forgiven for mistaking him as Hercules incarnate. His men outnumbered 3 to 1 — the general, already celebrated in song as a six-time Olympic…
Recently, I was in Homer, Alaska, to talk about my book “The End of Ice.” Seconds after I had…
You do not know me and likely the only experience we’ve shared in the US Army is that we wore the…
For a week every February and September, global fashion leaders descend on New York’s Fashion Week…
A sliver of November skies utterly devoid of warmth shone through antiquated curtains. I could almost…
Foreign influence in America is the topic du jour. From the impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s…
The improbable season and World Series victory of Washington DC’s beloved Nationals, affectionately…
By the time the Golden Rule, a 30-foot-long wooden gaff-rigged ketch, had sailed from California to…
“How do I [see] thee? Let me count the ways…” — Shakespeare “هنیبیم…