E. Jeffrey Ludwig

In T.S. Eliot’s classic poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” one of the lines reads, “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.” These eleven words capture the superficiality of the educated classes as…

Earlier this year, West Point's superintendent announced that West Point would modify its mission statement to drop “Duty, Honor, and Country” in favor of "the Army Values," a reference to a broader set of seven attributes that serve as the…

“The President is the worst president in U.S. history, and the Vice-President is the best vice-president in U.S. history.” This was the grim final assessment one might conclude in the wake of last night’s debate, for anyone who…

Here’s an important segment of the social engineering component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed under the Obama presidency: The ACA provides a strong emphasis on preventive medicine and primary care through insurance reform,…

After witnessing the first detonation of the atomic bomb in New Mexico, J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant Princeton University physicist who helped lead the Manhattan Project, remembered a line from the Bhagavad Gita and compared the…

“If I am killed I can die but once,” Lincoln was fond of saying, “but to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.” Pres. Trump’s clenched fist pumping in the air as he repeated “Fight!! Fight! Fight!” showed a courage parallel…

The first debate fully revealed the cognitive impairment of Pres. Joe Biden. His speech was slurred, he spoke too softly, his face exhibited a dazed expression, there were many verbal errors such as saying “trillions” when he…

The struggle to define the guiding principles of the American “experiment” has intensified in recent years. The left’s attempt to degrade and sabotage the American experience has widened with each passing…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, looking at the disintegration of our society, finds considerable truth about the causes of this disintegration in the writings of Yuri Bezmenov (a KGB agent who defected from the Soviet Union in 1970). He described the…

Last month, Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles towards Israel. The attack included 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles, none of which entered Israeli territory. Of the 120 ballistic missiles fired by Iran,…