Articles
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington
Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine — Tsarism or Stalinism anew?
Just as I was beginning to warm up to Vladimir Putin and the new emerging “democracy” in the Russian Federation (which like a phoenix rose
Suleiman the Magnificent and His Time
Suleiman the Magnificent: Scourge of Heaven by Antony Bridge is an engaging, but not exhaustive, narrative of the major events in the life and times
The Story of the Mamlukes by British Commander Glubb Pasha (1897-1986)
Soldiers of Fortune: The Story of the Mamlukes (1973) is another undiscovered gem of a book by a scholar, historian, author, and soldier, a British
From the Heroism of the Knights of Malta (1565) to the Victory at the Battle of Lepanto (1571)
The Galleys at Lepanto by Jack Beeching (1982) is a marvelous book, so well researched and mellifluously narrated as to read almost as a fairy
The State by Franz Oppenheimer
The State by Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was recommended to me years ago by friends as a Libertarian classic of political science. However, having just finished
Concerns remain on calls for a “Convention of States” to restore the nation
There is a Cuban proverb that reads: Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres, which roughly translates: “Tell me who your friends are,