…Donald Trump was probably the only political player who never wanted, nor needed, additional money. This is why Donald Trump is a political enigma, and the entire political class is unable to even begin to fathom his true political purposes…any…
Category: History
The Nuremberg Trial, 1945-1946, a Model for Things to Come
Below is attached the 2000 film “Infamy on Trial” which covers the thinking behind the Nuremberg Trials, as well as a picturing of how the Trial Process developed, primarily in the minds of the Americans and English legal minds.…
“Papismus Lucifugus”, the Advent of Tribalism in Not Just in Our Politics, but in American Conservatism
I actually had this book, one of only a few surviving. Dated 1668, it’s a record of a disputation between John Menzies of the (Church of Scotland) Divinity School at Marischal College in Aberdeen and an English Jesuit named Francis…
Battle of Athens (1946) Our only successful uprising since 1776
(I want to dedicate this film review to Lady Penguin and JadedByPolitics, old friends from the Obama days, and my early days of RedState.com. We didn’t use the term “influencer” in 2006, but it was clear there was an urge…
The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America by Victor David Hansen (May 8, 2023)
The decade-long French Revolution that broke out in 1789 soon devolved into far more than removing the monarchy, as it became antithetical to the earlier American precedent. American notions of liberty and freedom were seen as far too narrow, given…