The Last Stands of History
By Brendan Wilson In the film 300, the last stand of Leonidas is depicted in a scene of machismo and gratuitous violence. Gerard Butler,...
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- Jan 30, 2022
- 5 min
Tsar Vlad's Roulette
By Brendan Wilson In December, Russia marked the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union by amassing 130,000 heavily...
- Aug 25, 2021
- 4 min
Biden's Saigon
"The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army." -President Joe Biden By Brendan Wilson “There’s going to be no circumstance where you...
- Feb 27, 2021
- 5 min
Taiwan Could Heat Up Our Cold War
By Brendan Wilson While the world dozed, Asia’s sleeping giant awoke and began closing the gap on American global supremacy. We now find...
- Jan 9, 2021
- 5 min
Has the United States become a Banana Republic?
No, it has not. By Brendan Wilson Since November, Donald Trump has responded to his electoral defeat with unsubstantiated accusations of...
- Oct 3, 2020
- 7 min
The Death of a Republic
“There once was an ancient city… The ancient city fell.”
- Sep 28, 2020
- 6 min
Trump is Not Mussolini
But the Need for Such a Declaration is Telling
- Sep 18, 2020
- 6 min
Poison Tsar
What Do Vladimir Putin and the Roman Emperor Nero Have in Common?
- Sep 4, 2020
- 6 min
Plague, Pestilence, and the Pandemics of History
How Disease Has Changed Civilization By Brendan Wilson In the "before time", prior to January 2020, we lived secure, carefree lives. Our...
- Jul 31, 2020
- 6 min
Cold War II
Sino American Relations Turn Icy By Brendan Wilson On October 22, 1962, President John F Kennedy informed a stunned American public that...
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