Phidippides

He was the defining voice for conservative punditry, or perhaps all political punditry regardless of leaning, in the modern era. For me, he defined conservative politics of the 1990s when i listened ...

Oh great. More good news. We're going to be a satellite of China before we know it. After I watched some lectures on how the Chinese economy and overall system is run, I realized that it sounded lik...

Here is the group: Western Civ Forum / Group / Gab Social The name is just "Western Civ Forum". Actually not too much discussion lately, but I'll try to post new things there from time to time - ofte...

Well, he was acquitted in the Senate. Yes, I think they still could go after him on criminal charges, but honestly, it would be a very weak case. Generally, speech that can be criminalized is speech...

I'm watching the second impeachment trial right now, and Trump's defense team is doing a great job today. They've been poking holes not only in the House Managers' incitement case, but also showing t...

I imagine that the elite of the elite have their own internal locus of control and competitive desire that drives them. It can't be easy to just give up a sport because a guy has "won enough". I hea...

I rejoined Gab recently as a Twitter alternative. Gab has a feature where you can create "Groups" devoted to topics, and so I decided to start a history group. I've been posting some old WCF forum t...

Do you think democracy itself is indicted in what we're seeing? In Mein Kampf, Hitler presented his plan of using the democratic process to attain power before he then effectively ended democratic go...

I just want to take this moment to state that just as there are people on the left that are dangerous, there are also people on the right who pose a danger. I include Sidney Powell and Lin Wood on th...

That's a good point, although at the same time, I think it would be hard to come up with a war that was motivated primarily by religion, rather than politics. In other words, "religious wars" typical...

This is kind of a chicken-and-egg scenario; does the most evil person kill the most people, or is the person who killed the most people the most evil? Anyway, my thinking was that people in prior cen...

Posted by: @skiguy You did have the most evil tyrants in that century: Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Hitler and some others. Each of them were responsible for millions. Yeah but don't you think there ...

@donaldbaker Pretty good answer. Would you say that "globalism" also contributed? I say this in a broad sense, including: international alliances: a relatively local assassination spiraled into glo...

I don't have the numbers, but if you add up the number of people killed around the world in the twentieth century due to wars and regimes, it would undoubtedly dwarf the number of those killed during ...

A few more developments. This one leftist activist, John Sullivan, was busted for being part of the storming inside the capital, encouraging others to riot. Later on that day, he was interviewed by A...