Conservative Historian

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.  

Send us Fan Mail Who are the science deniers?  We look at the use of science to justify public policy and hear from Aristotle, Galileo, Isaac Newton, and the great 80s pop artist Thomas Dolby.  

Send us Fan Mail We go from the banks of the Nile to the Ancient Chinese Empires to Medieval Barons and restive British colonists to explore that challenging dynamic of taxation.  We also look at our modern US tax situation and ask whether it is good to a be millionaire in California.  

Send us Fan Mail We discuss the challenges that woke and Critical Race Theory ideology create in the movie industry today, particularly in the making of historical movies.  

Send us Fan Mail Hollywood has made movies about Cleopatra, Sir Thomas More and innumerable ones about World War II.  This is a list of movies that should be made.  

Send us Fan Mail We go from Medieval France to Medieval Japan to 20th Century Germany and back to Tudor England on a tour of figureheads throughout history.  Clovis, Kammu and Hindenburg all make an appearance.  So does a 78 year old American President.  

Send us Fan Mail On my Twitter feed I am often castigated for essentially doing what the left does with history: cherry picking a fact, and spinning a conservative narrative.  That is not conservative history so here I attempt to define it by citing everyone from Herodotus to the Mongols to Barack Obama.  

Send us Fan Mail A military exists for two primary reasons: to deter and if necessary, destroy foreign aggression towards the citizenry.  Yet in 2021 our military is asked to be diverse, to help with equity and even to (somehow) combat climate change.  We take a look at militaries throughout histories, the successful and not so successful and bring these lessons to our times.  

Send us Fan Mail We outline the Arab/Islamic conquests of the Middle East to 1948.  From there we view the history of Israel to the modern day and explain our support for the Jewish nation.  

Send us Fan Mail The Israeli Palestinian conflict is in the news - again.  We go back over 4,000 years to the beginning of the Jewish nation and walk through their history up to 1948.   This Part I of a history of the Jews and Israel.  In Part II we go form 1948 until the present day.  

Send us Fan Mail In some ways TV can do history better than theatrical releases because they simply have more time.  But even more than movies, they often take artistic license with the narrative.  We look at 10 total TV shows and mini-series based in history and discuss where some get it right, and where they go it so woefully wrong.  

Send us Fan Mail Before back tracking, Coke, Delta and a host of other companies began their conversion to the Church of Woke.  Why would large companies wish to enter the political fray?  We provide a guide in this podcast.  

Send us Fan Mail Peanut allergies, a mortal threat to some, came about because human anti-bodies mistakenly see peanuts as a threat.  So what are threats to our Republic that are mistaken and what are real?  We explore in this podcast.  

Send us Fan Mail We take a look at the Jim Crow era (the real one) and compare it to 2021.  We find the rhetoric around the New Jim Crow, Jim Crow 2.0 or the worst of them, Jim Crow on Steroids, to be deceptive, self serving, purposefully divisive, spurious, and wrong.  

Send us Fan Mail For the bulk of human history the age of 65 was not time to contemplate retirement but rather a sign of madness because almost no one lived that long.  There were exceptions such as Pepi II of Egypt but they were the outliers.  Today we have 45 million people over that age.  In the near future China will have 332 million (more than total US population) over that age.  This has pol...

Send us Fan Mail History is rife with examples of crises that compelled necessary transformation.  The United States is not in that state.  Yet without a mandate, and having lost many of the key arguments in favor of more government, the left now uses the concept of "crisis" to drive their agenda.  We look at crises from the Romans to the Japanese to determine what a real crisis consists...

Send us Fan Mail Asian Americans have encountered unique forms of discrimination the history of the United States, even from such beloved presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt.  Yet today they are in terms of several income and wealth measures, the most successful group in the nation.  We explore this history and what it means for 2021.  

Send us Fan Mail No, it is not what you are thinking you maniacs.  This is about the concept of both current and historical figures cultivating a certain image, then in a single moment the true person is shown - the naked moment.