Monthly Archive: January 2012
The other day – Good God, has it been three weeks already? – I wrote what was probably the worst post I’ve ever tossed up on this blog. It was utter speculative nonsense, with no solid bases in Historical Fact, I made no real attempt to cite anything in it, and despite it’s High Probability of Truth it’s nothing to be proud of. But you see, I had an ulterior motive in posting it; I am now going to use it as a vehicle to point out the intellectual paucity of most Historians. *** Back in the day, I made...
Occasionally I like to share my YouTube channel on here. Be warned, twenty minutes – but I think you’ll like it.
So the other night I was sitting in the dark, drinking my whiskey, rocking out to some Lynyrd Skynyrd, and just generally letting the thoughts bounce around my head, when something struck me- In the past two-hundred years, I can’t think of a single inter-state war that accomplished anything. On and off, I’ve been brushing up on my history with the Khan Academy – a site hosting professional University lectures, which I highly recommend (though, like University itself, you should take them with a grain of salt). I’ve been going through the lectures on the French Revolution, and that’s what...
Blogger Vox Day has been good enough to assemble a series of Lecture & Test posts on a variety of topics. I’m currently working my way through Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression – an Austrian examination of what occurred. The book itself, of course, is hosted by the Mises Institute, but this is a great service by Vox Day, nonetheless. The multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter are a great help. He’s doing more than just blogging – he’s actively laying out coursework for your own edification, from several books (down on the left-hand side-bar). I might go through...
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