Rodney Stark, explaining, in his history of he middle ages, For the Glory of God (p. 150-151) why many scholars...
I've got a much longer piece on this sitting on the shelf, half-baked, but I wanted to make a note...
In a recent discussion prompted by Ron Paul's civil war revisionism, the topic of Fort Sumter arose. I admit to...
One of the things I look for in history are recurring patterns. In particular, I'm intrigued by the idea that...
...is give war a chance... Argentina probably benefited from defeat even more than Britain did from victory. The war was...
Previously I was first introduced to Gnosticism, believe it or not, by Bertrand Russell, back in the mid-1980s. In his...
There are three ways in which a government can be influenced by some religion. The first is when the rules...
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic...
That's a hotly-contested question these days. There are, of course, many possible answers depending on how you look at it....
It's bad to read only opinions you agree with and have already verified. It's also bad to read and blindly...
Via ShrinkWrapped: What many people don’t know is that the Joint Chiefs offered President Johnson a plan to quickly defeat...
Or seven, if they're Kosher... Q: What's made of petrified wood, seems to be boat-shaped, the approximate size of a...
Katherine Kersten, in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Long-time Minnesotans remember John Earl Haynes as an architect of the famous "Minnesota...
And I mean that quite sincerely. Via Captain Ed: One of the consequences of closing American airspace was the denial...
Lately, I've been reading the Gospel of Judas [pdf] text. In comments here I remark that Gnosticism died under it's...
To follow up to my earlier posting on Gospel of Judas -- where I mentioned that gnostics were fond of...
I'm astonished at how gullible so many people are, how prone to wishful thinking. I keep hearing things like this...
Here, in a nutshell, is hubris. Writing about Col McMaster's book on Vietnam, Dereliction of Duty, one Amazon reviewer opines:...
Another annoying urban legend: the crusaders clamped chastity belts on their women to keep them faithful (for years, we are...
I am getting sooo tired of hearing everyone repeat the myth of the Children's Crusade. Especially the version where they...
Now here's a telling juxtaposition: Last year Ahmadinejad provoked outcries when he said on separate occasions that Israel should be...
One interesting find: The small ceramic shard unearthed at Tell es-Safi -- the site of the biblical city "Gath of...
He who controls the present controls the past; and he who controls the past controls the future... As with any...
"He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."George Orwell, 1984 History is...
In the 1990s, we began to hear that the US Army had deliberately set out to commit genocide against Native...
Yeah, right! More evidence from John Ray that Hitler was not a Christian "believer", but simply attempted to re-purpose Christian...
"Positive" atheists make the claim the Nazis mandated school prayer -- and seemingly indict American Christians in doing so. But does the historical evidence support their point?
He and I used to walk around the Central West End together -- home to many gay bars -- talking....
The Washington Post: The matters leading to impeachment aren't the only ones where Mr. Clinton veers from the nonfiction category....
Hitchens, quoting George Orwell from 1945: The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians...
Vox Day discusses the huge gap between the reality of the Inquisition courts and the popular myth which elevates it...
Okay, I've now heard enough from Europeans about the purported level of ignorance among Americans... at least we're not confused as to whether Abe Lincoln was fictional. I hope.
Was Hitler a leftist or rightist? Today we look at a leftist argument that Hitler's alleged leftist tendencies are nothing more than a conservative myth. What we find instead is a stunning display of bad logic, nonstandard definitions, omitted data, and ad homen arguments about rightists.
The story of US internment of Japanese families is one I was taught in school. But, once again, I'm learning that I wasn't told the whole story. Lately, this has been a familliar feeling.
James Loewen reveals some damning information about Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's foreign anti-democratic foreign policies, stuff they probably didn't teach you in school...
The Guardian: North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than 1 million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series...
Check out Dissident Frogman's report about some interesting co-incidences at the Memorial Museum at the Battle of Normandy. I feel...
Somehow I got the impression that the Salem witch trials were just another instance of Christians persecuting those who were...
As usual, I can't seem to confine my interest to any coherant boundaries. Today, I'm learning a little bit about...
Haha! I read Lilek's Monday piece before any of you did! Nananana! Okay, probably just most of you. The Instapundit...