Waging a Good War: Tortured Thesis
Those with little or no background in that history can gain it from Waging a Good War. The writing isn’t awful when it sticks to the story, rather than the…
civil rights
Waging a Good War: He Is Writing This Because . . .
Rick's military history approach comes off as just a vehicle to score some historical and contemporary points. For example, he wrote, “The same antidemocratic faction of American life that opposed…
Waging a Good War: The Army of One
The clumsy military clichés and analogies in Waging a Good War also caused Ricks to veer into incongruous criticisms of the individuals who waged the good war. In one example,…
Federally Funded Groups Targeting Republican Governors over School Mask Policies
In a profound display of Orwellian doublespeak, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently announced a lawsuit in favor of restricting civil liberties. The lawsuit was filed against the state…
Lost causes
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] I was a child in Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. One day in 1961, a bus…