Leaving Portland
Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.
Michael J. Totten
· 21 min read
Memoir
A collection of 61 posts
Bunker Boy: Preparing for Apocalypse Since 1979
The film gave me nightmares and panic attacks. I did what I could with such difficult information.
Ewan Morrison
· 12 min read
I Retired First
Our brains are driven to seek calmness as we age.
Gregory J. Beaupre
· 13 min read
To Skate—Perchance to Soar
Skateboarding is simple and complex, pointless and transformational.
Damian Platt
· 16 min read
Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later
North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.
Barbara Kay
· 14 min read
The Troubled Maker: Transgressive Art, Public Shame, and Mike Tyson
Tyson embodies the moral ambiguity of boxing’s rich tapestry: brutal and beautiful; entertaining and repellent; dishonorable and inspiring.
Ric Royer
· 11 min read
My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
Edie Wyatt
· 12 min read
Farewell, Alex Trebek
On Friday, November 6th, between 1 and 2pm Pacific Daylight Time, I participated in an audition for the TV game-show Jeopardy!. Normally auditions are conducted in person at various regional locations around the US. As a Northern Californian, I should have been attending a live audition in San Francisco. But
Kevin Mims
· 14 min read
On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard
The need for secrecy was therefore paramount. But as he began to plot his sabotage, Clark realized he’d need at least one trusted accomplice.
George MacDonell
· 10 min read
Without and Within, a Fin-de-Siècle Moment
If Donald Trump had won, the Left would have burned down the cities. If Joe Biden had won decisively and flipped the Senate, conservatives would have loaded the guns into their pickup trucks and laid siege.
Stephen Elliott
· 8 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear
We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
My Brief Spell as an Activist
I was on fire, and at the same time, I was fragile.
Lucy Kross Wallace
· 14 min read
A Poor Farrier's Journey to Political Sanity
I'm still not immune to violent political fantasies, especially when I become angry at scenes of Left-wing protests in Portland, Seattle, and other cities.
Austin Schue
· 13 min read
My Military Jail-Time in Israel
In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successes—though these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced.
Benny Morris
· 20 min read
Guilt Trip: A Son's Memoir
I had been heartless about her pain. She had absorbed my selfishness without complaint, never once calling me out about it.
Aaron Rhodes
· 9 min read