Garland Tucker

TUCKER: Gen. Lee and the culture wars

July 10, 2025 Garland S. Tucker III

The culture wars of the past decade have challenged America’s understanding of history. There has been a sustained push to rename schools, parks, roads, cities and counties that celebrated the name of any historical figure […]

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TUCKER: The Emperor’s Clothes

May 23, 2025 Garland S. Tucker III

Every schoolchild knows the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” After years of preparation and bureaucratic self-deception, the Emperor was finally prepared to model his invisible robes. His administrative sycophants had long since convinced themselves […]

TUCKER: The chains of the Constitution

April 25, 2025 Garland S. Tucker III

A simple warning to President Donald Trump: Human nature hasn’t changed. Presidents are not exempt from the problem of hubris. When married to the awesome power of the presidency, there’s the human tendency to throw […]

TUCKER: Where’s Silent Cal?

April 18, 2025 Garland S. Tucker III

One presidential perk is to decorate the Oval Office. With every change in administration, portraits, busts, carpets, draperies and furniture come and go. Every president seeks to project his own image and message via the […]

TUCKER: Quadrennial reflections

January 31, 2025 Garland S. Tucker III

American presidential elections come up every four years with monotonous regularity. It’s an integral part of our constitutional republic. Despite times of war, peace, economic turbulence, euphoric prosperity or whatever, we faithfully elect (or reelect) […]

TUCKER: A century later…

July 13, 2024 Garland S. Tucker III

What a difference a century makes. One hundred years ago, America was entering into its quadrennial presidential election campaign under circumstances quite different from those facing us today. Republican incumbent President Calvin Coolidge was facing […]