As the world tour rolled on, I was feeling tired. On this latest circumnavigation, I had hit six countries so far. Travel is exhausting. Especially when the schedule is breakneck, requires flights, and is chiefly international. My little retinue had become efficient. We were the first to disembark the planes, Read more…
Originally Published on December 1st, 2007 Twelve years ago, Larry got the wild idea of bringing notorious atheist and Oxford evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, to Birmingham, Alabama for a debate on the central tenets of his bestseller, The God Delusion. To his credit, Dawkins agreed, and what followed was not Read more…
Today’s story starts in London. Many of our readers will be familiar with the once popular British television show Top Gear. For more than two decades presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May have reviewed super cars from all over the world, entertaining their audiences with witty repartee in Read more…
Bryant interviews Larry on his Around the World Journey and the Mueller Report. LISTEN NOW
When on May 17, 2017, the Justice Department named former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel to oversee the investigation into the Trump campaign and possible collusion with the Russians, The New York Times virtually hailed it as a triumph of democracy. Mueller was described in the Read more…
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS The 15 March shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, which resulted in the murders of some fifty Muslims, is a horrifying tragedy wrought by extraordinary hate. Compounding the tragedy is how some are leveraging it to strengthen their social and political agendas. U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Read more…
During the college admissions bribery scandal, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman could scarcely be treated worse if they were serial killers. Anyone who has ever read Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities” or seen one of its many film iterations can easily picture the French Revolutionary Tribunal, hissing and snarling Read more…
As I said in my recent article on Vietnam, this is the war we lost. Or is it? Upon arrival in Saigon, I decided to schedule a tour to explore the city. I found an individualized tour with transportation included. Local tours are helpful for a variety of reasons, but I like Read more…
Larry, still in Vietnam, takes his life into his own hands and tours Saigon on a motor scooter. Did America lose the war? What Larry sees suggests otherwise. As I said in my previous post, Vietnam is the war we lost. Or is it? Upon arrival in Saigon, I decided Read more…
The Around the World in 80 Days expedition rolls on. South Korea was a great experience. It is an impressive and largely forgotten example of American nation building. Perhaps even more impressive than Japan because of the extraordinary growth of Christianity in South Korea. It was also meaningful for me to see Read more…