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What does it mean to be “woke?”

What does it mean to be “woke?”

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” 1Lewis Carrol and Alice Gerstenberg, Alice in Wonderland: A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through...

We Are Not Descended from Fearful Men

On this day of celebrating our independence, I think it is well to remember its cost. The men who led what the Declaration calls the “united States” (note the capitalization) into rebellion pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to...

Esperanza – Hope

“When the storm passes” (Esperanza – Hope) by Alexis ValdésTranslation of Alexis Valdés  poem “Esperanza” (Hope) written in Spanish in March 2020 about the humanitarian crisis brought “by the Coronavirus and the...

Kristallnacht

Former California Governor, Terminator, and Conan the Barbarian offers a heartfelt and unsparing critique of the events in the Capital January 6, comparing it to Kristallnacht, which occurred in his native Austria in 1938....

Trump’s Gotterdammerung

Gotterdammerung((The last days of the Third Reich, taking its name from the end of Wagner’s ‘Der Ring des Nibellungen.’ The word means “Twilight of the Gods,” and signals the end with chaos and destruction.)) Our understanding of historical...