In the early days of the 1950s and 1960s there was a plethora of U.S. military stationed across Korea but a dearth of harvestable grain, food distribution networks, or luxury meals. The desperation and poverty, and man’s ever-blossoming inventiveness when… Read More ›
People often ask me about money laundering. It’s not that complex. First, sell drugs in America. Receive cash. How do you get those millions of filthy USD cash bills into the banking system so that you can actually use it… Read More ›
Militarily it was a hardpressed time [for the Americans]. A crushing defeat in the Battle of Long Island in August, 1776, had left the British in control of access to New York and the New York coast. Washington had, at… Read More ›
I’ve never bought the travel-as-transformation narrative fluff that’s mongered in such tracts as Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” or in Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love.” Travel, at least the kind of travel so often coded as “real” or “authentic,” as opposed to,… Read More ›
Do you live in Seoul? Do you think a lot about your city? The greater Seoul area has about 26 million people in it. It’s about 50% of Korean GDP and about 50% of the population. Seoul proper, just the… Read More ›
This Thursday is the Fourth of July. Every Fourth of July, I say a little prayer of thanks to France. France bought from the fledgling U.S. its first-ever tranche of federal bonds, thereby giving Washington enough cash to buy guns…. Read More ›
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the… Read More ›
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing… Read More ›
The United States is a nation consciously conceived, not one that evolved slowly out of an ancient past. It was a planned idea of democracy, of liberty of conscience and pursuit of happiness. It was the promise of equality of… Read More ›
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