Conservative Historian

Send us Fan Mail A significant part of the protests roiling our campuses, and university history courses involve Settler Colonialism.  We explore the history of this concept and see how it fits into today's discourse. 

Send us Fan Mail Five problems with our colleges and how to fix them.  

Send us Fan Mail Ben Connelly, founder, publisher and writer for Hardihood Books joins the podcast to discuss non-fiction, science fiction and many other writings.  

Send us Fan Mail  We look at the incomparable Louis XI of France to see what an energetic, focused, comprehensive foreign policy looks like.  

Send us Fan Mail We have been hit by a wave of protests in the past few years.  Some vandalize works of art and others block key roadways.  We look at the history of some protests, and ask, what is the price of Free Speech.  

Send us Fan Mail A look at American History through the 14 most crucial moments from 1763 - 1859.  We focus on Independence, the Constitution and the formidable Andrew Jackson.

Send us Fan Mail We look at Civil Wars in Ancient Rome, modern Russia, China, and Spain and briefly at our own Civil War. We also address the question: is a 2nd American Civil War in the offing?  

Send us Fan Mail World War I caused the deaths 20 Million including 9.7 military fatalities involved in a war that could have been avoided, and one that changed civilization forever.    

Send us Fan Mail Have you noticed a certain childishness on the part of our leaders, and many fellow Americans?  Explore this trend and look for its causes.  

Send us Fan Mail We explore the shifts in the party system from the early Republic to the Progressive Era and ask: Are we seeing a significant party shift in real time?  

Send us Fan Mail The latest academic ranking of presidents is out.  I discuss the bias inherent in these rankings and propose a better way to look at our presidents. 

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Mayhugh of the Politics and Parenting Podcast joins to discuss some of his key historical influencers including Truman, Madison and Lincoln.  We also discuss some contemporary politics through the prism of history.  

Send us Fan Mail My brother CL and I discuss movies from 2023 including the Oscar nominees.  We go from Barbie to Oppenheimer, from Napoleon to The Holdovers with many movie stops along the way.  

Send us Fan Mail We explore necessary government institutions such as the Army, the FBI and the IRS to see the challenges they face today, and possible fixes.  

Send us Fan Mail I spent nearly 2 years with the AMA, an organization that should be vital to medicine but is too focused on leftist issues.  

Send us Fan Mail We explore the influence of 1960s radicals, federal student loans and the administrative bloat on the academy. We then provide seven ways to fix what ails our university system. 

Send us Fan Mail We begin this four part series with a look at the rot of the academy through the prism of the Claudine Gay scandal.  

Send us Fan Mail We provide a history of Taiwan, the Chinese Civil War, and the the state of the island today.  

Send us Fan Mail We go to ancient Japan, Star Trek and our two current presidential leads for 2024 to explore the concept of form without substance.  

Send us Fan Mail We take a look through early VP's and then breakdown why Trump chose Pence, and will not be choosing Haley as his 2024 running mate.

Send us Fan Mail We look at movies ranging from Lincoln to Elizabeth to Napoleon to find out why so many historical movie biographies are not historically accurate. 

Send us Fan Mail Mike Coté, founder and publisher of the Rational Policy blog and podcast, joins the Conservative Historian with a discussion covering many historical eras and contemporary politics.  

Send us Fan Mail Many of the arguments from both sides of the Israeli Palestinian debate depend on history.  We take a look through the centuries to determine which argument has more merit.  

Send us Fan Mail What is the purpose of Thanksgiving.  History has the answers.  

Send us Fan Mail This podcast features Josh Lewis, founder of Saving Elephants (savingelephantsblog.com), a blog dedicated to reigniting conservatism for millennials.  AD and Josh discuss how to apply conservatism to the issues of today.  Burke, Kirk and even Trump come up in the conversation.