Earl H. Tilford

BY EARL H. TILFORD Late breaking news on Friday, February 1 revolved around a supposed 1984 medical school party photo of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam...

BY EARL H. TILFORD On Friday, January 4, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute revoked its invitation to honor city native Angela Y. Davis at a...

BY EARL H. TILFORD The anniversary of the end of the Great War—despite President Donald Trump visiting pan-European ceremonies in France—passed almost unnoticed in the...

BY EARL H. TILFORD On Monday morning August 26, 1963, my best friend Tony Beason and I started walking 85 miles from Decatur, Alabama southward...

Exclusive to Self-Educated American BY EARL H. TILFORD A week after the Monday, July 16 Helsinki meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the American left...

BY EARL H. TILFORD “Where there is chaos, there also is opportunity.” Sun Tzu (or was it Chuck Schumer?) President Donald J. Trump has trumpeted the notion...

BY EARL H. TILFORD The point of the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel is not to explain the diversity as effect.  The cause...

BY EARL H. TILFORD “All theory is gray.  But forever green is the tree of life.”                                                          Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1842) I have enjoyed every season...

BY EARL H. TILFORD ‘The art of war is divided between force and stratagem.  What cannot be done by force must be done by stratagem.” — Frederick...

BY EARL H. TILFORD “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” —William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” Alabama football Coach...

BY EARL H. TILFORD Hallelujah, Thine the glory. Hallelujah, amen! —William P. Mackay, 1863 I am right behind Billy Graham on life’s final lap.  My first...

BY EARL H. TILFORD “War is the realm of the unexpected.” — B. H. Liddell Hart, 1950 Early 19th century Prussian general and philosopher Carl von Clausewitz identified...