Conservative Historian

Send us Fan Mail Do debates, a staple of political campaigns, actually matter.  We take a run at several of them ranging from Lincoln Douglas to Trump Biden to get the answer.  

Send us Fan Mail We complete our Persia/Iran history with a deeper look at the Iranian Islamic Republic spending time with their leaders, and understanding their aims.  It is a sobering experience.  

Send us Fan Mail In 1979 Iran ended 2,500 years of monarchial rule in favor of a theocratic regime.  We look at two Shahs to see what occurred.  

Send us Fan Mail To understand Iran, the source of so many of the problems of the Middle East, we go through Persian History to learn how the current Iran was created.  

Send us Fan Mail Hamas was not the first group to sow terror in the Middle East. In Medieval Times another group of fanatics ruled by fear.  Learn how the Mongols defeated them, and what lesson we learn from that story.  

Send us Fan Mail My brother Gus rejoins the podcast to ponder whether movies are there for our education, or for escape from our daily lives.  We cover everything from 12 Angry Men to Stand and Deliver in our quest.  

Send us Fan Mail Do you think of the Roman Empire every day?  We are here to weigh into the debate! 

Send us Fan Mail In an era in which less than 30% of Americans attend an organized religion, something will fill the spiritual void.  We explore how climate change is more religion than science.  

Send us Fan Mail We take a brief look at the life of Attila and the short lived Hunnic Empire.  

Send us Fan Mail For this one we stay in Europe and look at the careers of Charles V Habsburg, Edward III of England and Louis XIV of France.  We then compare to our modern politics. The distinction of one of these rulers is the word retirement.  

Send us Fan Mail Isolationism is back but not better.  We look to the fate of the Chinese Ming Empire, the European Age of Exploration and our own politics.  

Send us Fan Mail There are big lies, small lies, and lying in plain sight.  We look at history where decision were based on lies, except all the participants knew it was fiction.  

Send us Fan Mail Vice Presidents were not always the loyal attack dogs of their presidents.  We take a look at some of the more alarming Veeps in history, and compare them with today.  

Send us Fan Mail We travel from Assyria to Greece, China, India and the Victorians in our search for masculinity and history and continue to find one societal bond tying it together.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at masculinity and the role of men, today and in the past in this two part series.  

Send us Fan Mail The release of Oppenheimer reignited the debate about Truman's use of the atomic bomb to end World War II.  We weigh in on the controversy.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at words commonly used in our discourse today such as forgiven, free and insecurity and how they are used to warp our discussions.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at the history of the powerful AFT and its role in American education.  

Send us Fan Mail The reactions to the recent US Supreme Court decisions around affirmative action, student debt and free speech were similar to that of a child denied a McDonald's Happy Meal.  We look at these reactions and explore their origins.  

Send us Fan Mail We travel from ancient Persia to Medieval Italy to modern Russia to learn about mercenaries.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at demographic trends today and fertility issues in history.  Do we need less people or more?  We make the case for the latter.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at archeology from the fictional Indiana Jones to the real Walter Andrae and what it means for historians through the lens of learning about the ancient Assyrians.  

Send us Fan Mail It's movie time so we are having my brother back on.  We ask why those in power think of themselves as outsiders, the best war movies, and why British actors are superior to American ones. 

Send us Fan Mail A brief history of Memorial Day with a few stories of those who gave us our freedom at the cost of their "last full measure of devotion." 

Send us Fan Mail We break down the Netflix "documentary" and make suggestions on why the producers of this work made some interesting, and historically inaccurate, choices.