One of the laziest attacks in modern politics is branding someone a coward for using a Vietnam-era draft deferment—especially when the accusers hail from the same “peace and love” generation
Wayne’s World View One of the most confused debates in America today pits two extremes against each other: those who insist the United States was founded as a purely secular
For most of American history, there’s been an unspoken assumption: the Western Hemisphere is not a playground for rival empires. That idea isn’t new. What’s new is that, over the
I wrestled with this longer than I expected. At first, using AI in my writing felt like cheating. I’d read a finished piece and think, That doesn’t sound like Wayne.
For most of American history, an unspoken rule held: the Western Hemisphere is not a playground for rival empires. China and Russia tested that boundary in recent decades—Venezuela became the
