by Drick Boyd | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured
On Tuesday, September 30, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the President called American military leaders together for a one-of-a-kind meeting. Hegseth started off decrying “woke” policies within the military and castigating officers who were overweight. He stressed...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured
Let me begin by saying that even though I disagree with Charlie Kirk’s stance on several issues, I find no joy or satisfaction in his death by assassination. I also recognize that for many people working in the Trump administration, including the president himself,...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 20, 2025 | Featured
Note: This is the third in a series of messages based on the book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder The Quaking of America Resmaa Menakem is best known for his 2017 book, My Grandmother’s Hands. The subtitle of the book...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 7, 2025 | Featured
In my last blog, I described how in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States the Trump administration has ordered National Park employees to review pictures and plaques in the historic district of Philadelphia (Independence Hall, the...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 30, 2025 | Featured
Insights from Historian Timothy Snyder In 2017, during the first term of President Donald Trump, historian Timothy Snyder published a little book entitled On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Snyder’s specialty area is the history of Nazi Germany,...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 21, 2025 | Featured
In early July my wife and I drove to Maine where we stayed for 10 days. The cottage we were staying in looked out on a bay of the Maine coast line. Some mornings we woke up to beautiful sunrises shining across the water, but on other days we were met by a dense fog...
