[June 24, 2026] Part of our emotional and intellectual development is to recognize the evil tendencies that characterize us and to wrestle with them and learn to integrate them. We should not cast those evil tendencies away, we should convert them instead to make us stronger. We can see the difference between people who’ve done so and the… Read More »
[June 22 2026] Soldiers use the image of the hero’s perfection to motivate themselves. Self motivation is what people don’t understand about Soldiers, they don’t understand it at least to the degree that Soldiers are uncorrupted. Soldiers are doing everything they can to kneel before the most beloved hero and try to make themselves worthy. You see this… Read More »
[June 19, 2026] America stands at a crossroads in our understanding of history. Juneteenth commemorates a profound moment: June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order No. 3, which enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and declared the enslaved people of Texas free. The order marks the end of slavery in… Read More »
[June 17, 2026] Yesterday, while undergoing an outpatient surgical procedure, one of the nurses told me that her grandfather was injured on the USS Franklin in 1945 and given last rights. But he lived to tell the tale. We are close to history, and often don’t know it. On March 19, 1945, near Kobe, Japan, Lt. Cmdr. Joseph… Read More »
[June 16, 2026] Jordan Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999) stands as one of the most ambitious attempts in modern psychology to reconcile science, mythology, and the human need for meaning. Dr. Peterson wrote the book after a personal crisis triggered by the horrors of the 20th century: totalitarian regimes, the Holocaust, nuclear threats, and… Read More »
[June 13, 2026] In Jordan Peterson’s motivational compilation “It’s Time to Become Dangerous,” the psychologist confronts a harsh reality: life is difficult and marked by suffering. Unless you commit fully, it can embitter you, turning you into a force for darkness rather than good. Peterson argues that acknowledging suffering’s inevitability is not defeat but the foundation for growth. … Read More »
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[June 6, 2026] A dozen years ago, I wrote about the most famous battle in the history of the Western world. The article got zero comments, only a handful of views, and seemed to go down as a flop. Now, I’m resurrecting it for today, as we remember the landing that day, D-Day, June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord… Read More »
[June 3, 2026] Dorothea Brande’s book, Wake Up and Live! strikes at the heart of human failure. People drift in self-deception, half-alive, substituting busyness for purpose. Her formula, act as if it were impossible to fail. Doing so demands voluntary confronting difficulties in life. You do this like cleaning your room (like Dr. Jordan Peterson would say). It… Read More »
[May 28, 2026] In a society that devalues the father’s role and elevates the single mother, we have sown the seeds of failure in all our children. The world is a tough, dismal place. Without the encouragement of the real father, it is difficult to be courageous. This is a difficult but needed message from Dr. Jordan Peterson.… Read More »
[May 24, 2026] Today, Sunday, the day before Memorial Day, our Veterans ask that you prepare yourself. Their message: remember and honor those who were lost in service to America. This Memorial Day weekend, enjoy it because America’s bravest and finest paid the ultimate price so you could be free to do so. A few years ago, I… Read More »