In my last On Crime column, I interviewed Max Allan Collins, the co-author of “Spillane: The King of Pulp Fiction,” a fine biography of the late crime writer Mickey Spillane.
Decades before he became the most powerful man on Earth, former (and likely future) President Donald Trump was an influential person, popular with reporters and celebrities alike.
Competition in the marketplace of ideas is based on quality, on evaluation, on free and unfettered exchange with whatever communication methods are available. Recently, however, as Big Tech companies consolidate power and influence our leaders, America is now a place where too often opinions are stifled or labeled "dangerous." Public and private figures are silenced and even banned from digital platforms.
This holiday season, one might want to buy the crime aficionado on your shopping list one or more of this year's fine true crime or crime fiction books.
President Biden told reporters over Thanksgiving that he would use the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress to do something he has wanted to do for decades.
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And when those who fail to learn hold the reins of power and society's purse strings, they do so at our expense.
Dying was only the beginning. Stephen Blitz didn't think about his own safety when he saw the man trying to force a woman into his car. He stepped in to defend her and got a knife to the gut for his troubles.
Once in a great while, a book comes along that clearly defines the time and earth-shattering events into which the book is released.
In their enthusiasm to rollout the novel covid vaccines as widely and quickly as possible in early 2021, the public health establishment succumbed to two dangerous temptations: Propaganda and coercion.
Like the German church in the 1930s, the American church in the 2020s is culpable for the pending devastation of human life and the collapse of a great nation.
Turning the last page of a great book is one of those bittersweet life experiences.
The Arabella network raised $1.7 billion in 2020 alone to spend toward the defeat of President Donald Trump, easily the largest amount in any year for the organization.
