Columnist Cal Thomas is a top dog in the journalism game, one of the nation’s 80-year-olds who we want to continue at his job.
He is not only complying with his popular columns of news and analysis, but he’s just published a highly readable “diary” of the stories and events he has witnessed and covered since 1984 with A Watchman in the Night: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America.
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“In the pages that follow, you can walk with me through a social, spiritual, and political ‘diary,’ in which I recall passing events and what I wrote about some of them,” he wrote in the new book, already topping several Amazon bestseller lists.
“Those old enough will recall this history because they lived through it. Younger people will see this as a modern lesson and be exposed to economic and moral truths that worked before and can again if they are embraced.”
And maybe they will also embrace journalism and news and buck the trend of social media and reality shows. “I worry about the cynicism and the distrust of the profession,” Thomas told Secrets.
Over 330 pages, Thomas reminds readers about the nation’s high and low points since the year of former President Ronald Reagan’s reelection with insightful recollections of events and even his personal photographs.
For example, he recalls from 2014, “The Ebola virus invaded America. It was a preview of an even worse virus to come.” And from 2018, “Responding to the Chicken Little scaremongers that “climate change” is about to destroy us, Costco announced it has a doomsday meal kit for sale. The cost is $6,000. The online listing says the kit contains thirty-six thousand servings of food that will feed a family of four for one year. Yum!”
Along the way, the spiritually-influenced writer reminds readers that there is more to life than work, eat, sleep. “In 1984, when the column started, I told God I would seek to honor him with the gift He has given me. I trust He is pleased,” concluded Thomas.
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He told us that the book was not a career-ending play. He plans to keep on writing as long as the outlets he worked so hard to get and keep continue to carry his column.
“You have to be engaged every day. Just like you can’t get into shape watching an exercise video, you have to participate in the preservation of what we have,” Thomas said. “I’ll keep doing it for a few more years anyway.”
