History

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than a bad reputation Friedrich Nietzsche During the War of Three Kingdoms in ancient China, a fearsome general by the name… read more

It is 25 years since the end of history. Twenty five years since the Berlin Wall came down, since the Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia, since Ceaușescu died serenading Romanians… read more

Even to the casual observer, the realities of western dating today can seem bizarre. Contradictions are everywhere. How are there so many promiscuous, “slutty” women around, and yet so many… read more

From 361 to 363 AD, Rome was ruled by emperor Julian. If you know your Roman history, at the time, Rome had already converted to Christianity with the previous emperor… read more

In 1940, the Germans burst into France, overwhelming the defenses of that proud but demoralized nation in a scant six weeks. To those on the Allied side old enough to… read more

If ever there was a writer that took up the cause of cultural Marxism and brought it to the forefront of popular culture it was Herbert Marcuse and his groundbreaking… read more

It was March 23, 1953. At 7:20 pm the plane lumbered down the runway and took off in the direction of Brno, 115 miles from Prague. Once in flight, the… read more

Some incredible stories of survival are well known, and other less so. Still others have been covered up entirely by the silt of time. I came across one such story… read more

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Antarctic continent was still largely unexplored. Vast expanses of its terrain remained terra incognita. The task of turning the incognita to the… read more

I stumbled upon an old article in the Galveston Daily News that interviewed Tesla for his views on women. Even though he was alive over 100 years ago, the observations… read more