May 16, 2024

The Fall of the Universities Began in Vietnam

Forty-nine years ago, a kind of ideological “Fifth Column” comprising members of America’s “New Left” hailed the triumph of their comrades in Hanoi over the embattled Republic of [South] Vietnam.  After over a ...

September 29, 2017

The tragedy of the PBS-Ken Burns version of the Vietnam War

Ken Burns, in his new PBS series, correctly points to the Vietnam War as a source of the polarization in our society today.  And he correctly urges us to revisit, understand, and come to grips with details making up that history through civil (a...

July 17, 2017

Are PBS and Ken Burns about to Rewrite History Again?

PBS is planning to run a new documentary series this September on the Vietnam War, produced and written by Ken Burns.  Burns is a left-wing "historian" and documentary film producer with a history of having his politics shape the narra...