Dan McCarthy sees clever strategic calculation in Donald Trump’s seemingly haphazard bullying of Latin America. In going relentlessly after drug-funded thugocracies like Venezuela while buttering up – and if need be propping up – friendly leaders like Argentina’s Javier Milei, writes McCarthy in Jewish World Review, Trump is attempting to shape a Latin America that isn’t “forever plagued by cartels, communists and Chinese influence.”

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


