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The Last American WWI Veteran Dies
“Well, I guess I’m famous now.”Those were the words of Frank W. Buckles when he became the last living American World War I veteran in 2008. Sadly, yesterday, Buckles passed at the age of 110.“We have...
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Could You Imagine Going to War as a 14-Year-Old?
It’s difficult to imagine a scenario where an adolescent boy would join the Armed Forces to fight alongside grown men in life-and-death situations. But once upon a time—World War I, for instance—that...
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Rankism: The Poison that Destroys Relationships
Robert Fuller discusses the roots of discrimination and assaults on human dignity.Relationships take many forms but they’re all vulnerable to the same poison—rankism.Relationships can be interpersonal...
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Blacklisted From History: A History of the Men’s Rights Movement
Men’s rights activism has had many names since its inception in the 1920s.Imagine a black rights activist who does not know who Malcolm X was. Imagine a women’s rights activist who could not rattle...
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It’s All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating …
Seán Flynn on the end of American Empire, and how the internet is more like the Catholic Church than you imagined.Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye, counsels an old Russian proverb. Forget the...
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Hemingway Tweets
What would Ernest Hemingway have tweeted?If you want to participate in the modern world, you have to understand, and take part in the network of interpersonal and collective communication known as...
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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on Having a Complete Education
James Altucher has a cheat sheet for learning, and traditional schools are not on the list.—-I’m a functional idiot by any measurement. I just realized the highest level of math I’ve used in the past...
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The Forgotten Story of American Writers on the Frontline of World War I
View image | gettyimages.comHenry James renounced his American citizenship in 1915 in response to his country’s inaction. ______It was a very public gesture for a very private man. On July 26 1915,...
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‘DON’T call me Francis….’ Chris Hunt’s CARVER: A Paris Story
Much to my personal delight, I had the opportunity to read my new friend Chris Hunt’s phenomenal effort CARVER:A Paris Story.This is a no nonsense, violent, layered, personal story of an ordinary man,...
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How World War I Changed the Weather for Good
Embed from Getty ImagesBy Barry Sheils, Durham UniversityCulture has rarely tired of speaking about the weather. Pastoral poems detail the seasonal variations in weather ad nauseam, while the term...
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5 Days Before His 14-Gun Salute at Arlington National Cemetery
Lisa Hickey gives us a Memorial Day poem in remembrance of her grandfather.—He was decorated from each of the 20th century warsthat I’d been forced to study as a middle schooler –World Wars One and...
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During World War I, a Silent Film Spoke Volumes About Freedom of Speech
By Eric P. Robinson, University of South CarolinaIn the United States, “The Great War” led to unprecedented efforts by the federal government to control and restrict “unpatriotic” speech. But the...
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What I Found at a Yard Sale Sent Me on a Mission
—When all is said and done, do you think you could fit your entire life into three cardboard boxes? I don’t mean your belongings, but your life; your hopes, dreams, and ambitions? Because that is...
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More Folks Have Died by Bullet Than Battlefield and We’re in Another Civil War
For a war to be a war, does it need to be fought in proximity? Does it need to be fought only days apart from each other?Sunday, even more souls were taken from this earth by the bullet – 14 total...
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Veterans Have Fought in Wars – And Fought Against Them
Michael Messner, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and SciencesIf President Donald Trump had his way, the nation would be celebrating the centennial of the World...
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Trumpism = White Nationalism = Fascism
I see a bad moon a-risingI see trouble on the wayI see earthquakes and lightnin’I see bad times today… From “Bad Moon Rising” by John FogertyEver since he descended the gold escalator in Trump Tower...
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Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield
— Business is not war. But if you are operating in a fierce marketplace then it can feel like it. Many of the methods we use in our sales campaigns, marketing strategies and competitive tactics are...
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Cherokee Names
— In the economic circumstances of my childhood, I might have envied many things. I suppose I did, but there was nothing I wanted as much as a family. After my grandfather died, I had a conversation...
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Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I: Crash Course World History #36
— In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an...
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‘They Shall Not Grow Old’: War as You’ve Never Seen It
By Cindy Grogan Director Peter Jackson is best-known for his epic Lord of the Rings movies. J.R.R. Tolkien began writing that sweeping tale after his own experiences during the horrifying events of...
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