Conservative Historian

Send us Fan Mail We go to the second of our four part series and explore the time of the first Tsars to the reign of Peter the Great, roughly the late 1400s to 1725.  We see the pulls of East and West, and the establishment of an authoritarianism that exists to the present day.  

Send us Fan Mail The horrible war now taking place in Ukraine raises many questions but chief among them is why this war, and why now. Several pundits are providing various reasons or trying to explain Putin's thoughts.  But those provided by the Russian President are false justifications.  We explain why in this podcast.  

Send us Fan Mail Who make the best presidents? Legislators? Governors? Veeps? We take a look through American presidents to make that determination.  

Send us Fan Mail So many Independent movies have pretentions to insight and poignancy.  Most are rubbish.  But the zany 1980s comedy, Back to School, starring Rodney Dangerfield no less, provides perceptions most "deep" movies miss.  

Send us Fan Mail As Biden and his team contemplates a presidential reset, they would be in good company.  Lincoln, Wilson, Clinton and Van Buren all had to reset.  But can Biden do so? We explore the possibilities in this podcast.  

Send us Fan Mail What does the late, but still great singer Meat Loaf have to teach us about maturation and mortality? Quite a lot as it turns out.  

Send us Fan Mail There have always been ghosts in the machine.  Unanticipated aspects that inadvertently emerge apart from the initial plan.  What are these ghosts in history and in our own society.  

Send us Fan Mail In 1381 the peasants of England revolted against unjust rule.  It ended when they acquiesced to the promises of a 14 year old boy.  What does this episode in history tell us of freedom and risk in society.   

Send us Fan Mail From 1775 through 1949, four revolutions remade the modern world.  How is the American Revolution different from that of the French, Chinese and Russian Revolutions? Download and find out.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at historical figures so invested in their belief systems, they would would be willing to make any sacrifice.  We also look at those who do not.  

Send us Fan Mail We move from the Americas to China to Africa for some grand historical mistakes.  

Send us Fan Mail What is the role of government? Protection from foreign foes? Bridges?  Behavior modification? And what does this role have to do with Augustus Caesar and fertility in the Roman Empire?  Find out more in this podcast

Send us Fan Mail Many listeners come to our podcasts for hard hitting, fact based history and political commentary.  Well this is not that type of podcast. Instead I am joined again by my brother Gustavus and we take a journey through historically accurate movies.  On this journey we stop off at Master and Commander,  Happy Days, Gandhi, The Civil War and Gilligan's island.  

Send us Fan Mail Where did the concept of using our public schools as indoctrination centers for progressive thought emanate?  Two figures, Woodrow Wilson, and American Educator John Dewey.  

Send us Fan Mail Our relationship with public education is very much in the news today.  What were the beginnings of that education and how should we consider our role today?  

Send us Fan Mail I know that bomination is not a word but the Biden bill is an Abomination in all its bloated glory.  How is this bill like the original Trojan Horse?  Learn more in this podcast.  

Send us Fan Mail We do not have nobility but demographic trends means we treat our children as royalty.  What does this entail for the Republic?  

Send us Fan Mail What is the difference between performance, as in carrying out an action, and performance as an act of entertainment.  We look to Boris Yeltsin, Julius Caesar, Margaret Thatcher and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for answers.  

Send us Fan Mail Where did social security emanate? And what is its current state? We answer these questions and more, with some historical digressions.  

Send us Fan Mail In the podcast we look at a possible root of the Afghanistan withdraw debacle while looking at several Civil War figures who figured prominently in the American military.  

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Send us Fan Mail We walk through a history Afghanistan from Alexander to the Mongols to the modern day Taliban.  We ask what this means for U.S. Foreign policy and our view our American abroad.  

Send us Fan Mail We begin with Sun Tzu and take a look at militaries from the Macedonians to the 16th century Koreans.  We wrap up asking whether the US is ready for the next, inevitable, conflict.  

Send us Fan Mail We change from our long form style to touch on a number of relevant topics including China, Cuba, the Media and the NFL.  

Send us Fan Mail Historically, monarchs have tended to see the state, the needs of their subjects, and their own beliefs and desires as one in the same.  We have a political faction that echoes that sentiment.  Learn what Henry VIII and Marcus Aurelius tell us about these fusions, and what it means for voting today.