It would be easy – even inevitable – given the dysfunctional state of American politics to just say the heck with it – nothing works any...

It would be easy – even inevitable – given the dysfunctional state of American politics to just say the heck with it – nothing works any...

Americans, by most accounts, consider themselves the hardest working people in the world. Well, maybe. But, at what cost and at what...

I don’t fly, thank the Lord, as much as George Clooney’s character in the funny and engaging new film Up In The Air. Clooney’s road...

As I noted in this space a while back, Tim Egan’s new book – The Big Burn – is a winner both as western (especially Idaho) history and as...

Douglas Brinkley’s fine new book – The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America – tells the great story of how...