I come from a family of lawyers, they are trained sophists. If you have an understanding of logical fallacies you can run circles around them, they proceed to get angry and attempt to tone police you. They almost always have no sound arguments for what they say.
I enjoy these articles where you give your pov on leftist figures, related to the Bonus Army (which you've covered here) have you looked into Smedley Butler? I suspect his entire Wikipedia page is propaganda.
Given the 10th anniversary of Trump coming down the golden escalator and announcing his campaign, I recently re-read The Flight 93 Election by Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton writing under a pseudonym because at the time a mainstream conservative intellectual was not allowed to like Trump), and I'm impressed with how good his political judgement is. He also has an online American foreign policy course through Hillsdale College (about 4-5 hours of lectures) that is really great.
Something that attracted me to this substack and Anton's work is that you both articulate what the current stakes are and realistic paths to political victory. In a talk he mentioned that Claremont Review of Books rejected the essay, showing how unpopular it was to support Trump at the time. Anton was working a corporate job where publishing under his real name would get him fired, a situation probably familiar to most people reading this. I think a post on The Flight 93 Election and the climate surrounding it from your pov would be interesting. Fallout New Vegas review in Claremont Review of Books soon.
Really well done. Thanks for sharing this apparently buried information. I had never heard of any of the events you covered, which could just mean I personally have been living under a rock but I suspect these world-shaping historical cases and their details aren't widely known, for a reason.
If I can make a request, I'm sure i’m not the only one who’s impressed by your skill in finding and explicating history, if you could share tips at some point about how you’ve been able to develop your ability and talent in researching and understanding the past, I’m sure (sentient) people (paid subscribers) would love to hear whatever advice you have.
You mentioned “slowing down” in I think your recent big write-up about problems the right faces today. If you could even devote just a couple minutes in a podcast episode expanding your thoughts on that and how you mean, that would be really cool. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Quick side note, the average person’s education at every grade and level is so impoverished that it seems like self-educating and re-building the infrastructure to provide basic important grounding knowledge, as opposed to factoid trivia “islands” as you’ve called them, is needed more than ever
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea that had every happened but its not a shock. Its like the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. I'm sure similar events have played out many times over in the past few decades but we will probably never hear most of those stories.
I come from a family of lawyers, they are trained sophists. If you have an understanding of logical fallacies you can run circles around them, they proceed to get angry and attempt to tone police you. They almost always have no sound arguments for what they say.
I enjoy these articles where you give your pov on leftist figures, related to the Bonus Army (which you've covered here) have you looked into Smedley Butler? I suspect his entire Wikipedia page is propaganda.
Given the 10th anniversary of Trump coming down the golden escalator and announcing his campaign, I recently re-read The Flight 93 Election by Publius Decius Mus (Michael Anton writing under a pseudonym because at the time a mainstream conservative intellectual was not allowed to like Trump), and I'm impressed with how good his political judgement is. He also has an online American foreign policy course through Hillsdale College (about 4-5 hours of lectures) that is really great.
Something that attracted me to this substack and Anton's work is that you both articulate what the current stakes are and realistic paths to political victory. In a talk he mentioned that Claremont Review of Books rejected the essay, showing how unpopular it was to support Trump at the time. Anton was working a corporate job where publishing under his real name would get him fired, a situation probably familiar to most people reading this. I think a post on The Flight 93 Election and the climate surrounding it from your pov would be interesting. Fallout New Vegas review in Claremont Review of Books soon.
Really well done. Thanks for sharing this apparently buried information. I had never heard of any of the events you covered, which could just mean I personally have been living under a rock but I suspect these world-shaping historical cases and their details aren't widely known, for a reason.
If I can make a request, I'm sure i’m not the only one who’s impressed by your skill in finding and explicating history, if you could share tips at some point about how you’ve been able to develop your ability and talent in researching and understanding the past, I’m sure (sentient) people (paid subscribers) would love to hear whatever advice you have.
You mentioned “slowing down” in I think your recent big write-up about problems the right faces today. If you could even devote just a couple minutes in a podcast episode expanding your thoughts on that and how you mean, that would be really cool. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Quick side note, the average person’s education at every grade and level is so impoverished that it seems like self-educating and re-building the infrastructure to provide basic important grounding knowledge, as opposed to factoid trivia “islands” as you’ve called them, is needed more than ever
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea that had every happened but its not a shock. Its like the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. I'm sure similar events have played out many times over in the past few decades but we will probably never hear most of those stories.