WRITINGS ARCHIVE

NOTE: as of May 2023, LtCol Zumwalt's op-eds will ALL be accessible in year by year listings. Those posted on the BLOG page of the site will remain there as well as appear in the year by year listings. This has been done in behalf of any visitors who have an interest in Jim's observations. They will spend less time scrolling down the listings than clicking through the Blog format.

Jim Zumwalt has kept watch over the currents and fissures of American social and political culture for many years. He began to articulate his hopes and fears in the form of diagnostic columns and "Op-Ed" pieces. Not all his observations appear in the Blog of this website but well over 300 of them do. They repay the careful reader with a continuum of insights that has retained its value.

Each of these 500-plus pieces is keyed to one of a handful of "existential" issues that the writer will then illuminate via the lens of some particular event that reflects that issue. Lt Col Zumwalt USMC (ret) then connects the dots (and puts into perspective) what might be invisible at first look. His prose is very direct, his focus is very sharp, and his views are highly regarded.

In 2008, Jim wrote a rather short piece on his son choosing EOD (bomb-defuzer) in the Navy as his MOS. See story . He survived. Won The Bronze Star.