It isn’t particularly clever to surmise that after a long War on Terror and military campaigns in both Iraq and Afghanistan, America seems particularly “war weary.” For years many Americans have asked why their government should rush in to mitigate and engage in foreign conflicts when there are national matters to be dealt with. From […]

Being neither twenty-one nor fifty-one leaves a girl in an interesting position. While she is young she has passed that point in her life when she was just enthusiastically entering adulthood. —When her ideals were sharp and immovable. —When the world was an open place. —When the sky certainly seemed the limit and she had […]