By Will Livermore When was the last time you sat down to eat a meal without staring at a screen? How about the last time you woke up and didn’t Continue Reading
Philosophy & Poetry
Man Was Born Free, but Is Everywhere in Chains
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.” That stark indictment of human society comes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract Continue Reading
When Heroes Crack
I've been sick the last a few days. It's been just a cold, cough, and sinus infection, but it's been enough to keep me down. My wife, Karin, has Continue Reading
The Man I Refuse to Become
One does not exist without the other. The future cannot be without the past. Good without evil. Son without father. The physiological similarities Continue Reading
Maslow Was Right and the Military Still Builds Men
When Abraham Maslow published his theory of human motivation in 1943, he argued that human beings move through a progression of needs: physiological, Continue Reading
Speak Only to Improve the Silence
There’s a kind of silence that comes with age, and experience, and, if we're lucky, wisdom. Sometimes in the military it’s the silence that settles Continue Reading
The Space Between the Blast
Michael H. Ollis, the Triple Deuce standard, and the long road to “Medal of Honor” By Calder M Serba [Editor’s Note: Citation superscripts have Continue Reading
Permission for the Wave
By Betty Schram “It’s being tied to a chair at the bottom of an empty in-ground swimming pool. There is a giant wave looming over, waiting to crash Continue Reading
Divided by Design
Hey friends, how’ve you been lately? A lot is going on in the world right now. I vacillate between being informed and being overwhelmed. I wish I Continue Reading
An Idea That Is Not Dangerous Is Unworthy of Being Called an Idea at All
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” It’s a line that unsettles polite conversation—and Continue Reading
Certainty in the Sand
The hardest part of being on the right side of history is time. Each falling grain brings trials and tribulations without certainty. It hinges on the Continue Reading
Useful Idiots Was the Method Not the Insult
The phrase “useful idiots” is often treated as a crude insult, something invented by Cold War critics to smear idealists who supported communist Continue Reading