Conservative Historian

Send us Fan Mail Joined by my brother Chris, we look at movies ranging from the Lost Weekend to Arthur to When a Man Loves a Woman.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at ancient Egypt, Rome and China, Medieval Europe and Modern America to find the best leader upgrades.  

Send us Fan Mail   We hear from Professor Eric Heinze who expresses both his praise, but also provides a critique of the leftist approach to history.  Heinze goes after traditional history but does not spare the left over lack of historical criticism of Soviet, Cambodian and Cuban regimes.    

Send us Fan Mail We go from Akbar to Washington to Edward I, and their ignoble successors.  

Send us Fan Mail AI? Robots? Machine Learning? Fear of technology is not new.  We go to 19th century Britain to meet the Luddites, a group who also experienced technological change. 

Send us Fan Mail We begin by exploring protests in the ancient world, stop in Medieval England, and come to the present day.  We also explore the mindset of protests today.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at six presidents who chose not to seek another term including Joe Biden.  What were the motivations and decision drivers.  

Send us Fan Mail We talk with Salina Baker, author of The Line of Splendor, a historical novel about Nathanael Greene.  We explore the general's life and the Revolutionary War.  

Send us Fan Mail We compare and contrast riots in Ancient Alexandria with modern Los Angeles, including the current unrest.  

Send us Fan Mail We hear from a man who was born in 1932 about what life was like in 1930s and 1940s America.  

Send us Fan Mail It is vital as a nation that we honor and remember those whose sacrifice has given all that we have.  

Send us Fan Mail We are joined on the podcast by Prof. Matt Tuininga.  We discuss a critical aspect of Early American history, the conflict of New England puritans and the native Americans in the region.   

Send us Fan Mail We go back to the Egyptians, Popes, and even some American scandals to see bribery history and then explore whether the Qatari "gift" of a jet is a bribe.  

Send us Fan Mail What has Congress done in the past four months?  Now, what has the executive tried to do?  This is an illustration of a century long process of power to the executive.  We trace this evolution's historical roots.  

Send us Fan Mail We are thinking about the Roman Empire! We are joined by Professor David Parnell for a discussion about Flavius Belisarius and the 6th Century Romans.  

Send us Fan Mail A few weeks ago we saw the blunders.  Now the diplomatic wins ranging from ancient Egypt to the Marshall Plan.  

Send us Fan Mail We compare the 1950s, and the 1980s Japanese scare to today to learn how manufacturing, as part of our economy, has changed.  

Send us Fan Mail We cover the Opium Wars, the Taiping Civil War and Stephen Platt's new book: Raider.  We also take a look at current China.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at 17th century Spain as an example of how a great power can decline and fail when it takes on too much debt.  A lesson for the US.  

Send us Fan Mail History denigrating the United States, celebrating dictators and crafting false and misleading narratives used to be the purview of the left.  Now we have it on the right. 

Send us Fan Mail We compare the 1995 Best Picture Oscars with 2025. Then my brother Chris and I ask the question: What the heck happened?

Send us Fan Mail Think the Oval Office imbroglio with Zelensky, Vance and Trump was bad?  We have at least ten worse diplomatic blunders.   

Send us Fan Mail Amidst lots of boasting among MAGA this is a warning against hubris.  We have seen "permanent" majorities be not so permanent.  

Send us Fan Mail Were the crusades about liberating the holy land, the clash of Christianity vs. Islam, or western colonization?  We explore all these views and provide a descriptor of some key events.  

Send us Fan Mail We explore the inaugural addresses of Cleveland, Coolidge, FDR, Reagan and more recent presidents to understand the role of executive power.