John J. Waters

A novelist writes to move someone. He begins by probing his own feelings—the things he loves and the things he hates.

The blacktop road in this picturesque neighborhood of Colonial Williamsburg is lined with Southern Magnolias, red maples, and flowering dogwoods,...

The 2022 documentary Retrograde explores the final months of America’s war in Afghanistan, capturing footage from January 2021 until the final...

President Biden said he ended the war in Afghanistan. In truth he abandoned it.

In 2006, Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor, aged 25, gave his life for our country. The Medal of Honor citation describes how insurgents hurled a grenade onto...

This is an excerpt from River City One: a Novel (Simon and Schuster) When we came home after seven months, I spent all my time with the guys—“the...

In most places around the country, the point of acquiring power is to do something with it. Your state’s legislators pass a corporate tax cut to...

I wrote earlier this month about the “final class” of Marine Corps Scout Snipers. The Marine Corps is in process of discontinuing its infantry Scout...

Professor Emily Wilson has achieved celebrity status … for translating Homer. University students use her work, and it draws leisure readers as well.

Scout Snipers have a mantra. I learned that mantra years ago when I was assigned to lead a platoon of these Marines.