The life that has been gifted to us is old… more than 6,000 years old. It began before recorded time, on the plains of Mesopotamia. There it was that the race of men was regimented; it was there that they learned to be ruled.
We are faced today with a concentrated attack on the great thinkers of the Western tradition, who are dismissed as "dead white European males." Robert Nozick used to say that what offended him most in this phrase was the word "dead." It's n
Sacrifices to the gods were basic parts of the ancient religions. We've mentioned them before, but from the records left by the Romans we get a very clear picture of how they operated.
One of my entertainments, from time to time, has been the Kennedy assassination… John Kennedy's, that is. I'm not particularly a fan of mysteries, but once in a while one of them intrigues me, and this is a good one.
In the early 1970s the US and much of the western world was shifting into a stagflationary economic crisis. Nixon removed the dollar completely from the gold standard in 1971 with the aid of the Federal Reserve (or perhaps under the direction of the
The Mesopotamians were a highly innovative civilization, responsible for many inventions that had a significant impact on human civilization. For one, they were among the first to use the wheel. The invention of the wheel not only revolutionized tran
The most powerful attraction of monarchy today is leadership above politics, which is something that a critical mass of the body politic can rally around.
The History Guy remembers how a small, slow, simple plane may have been one of the most powerful aircraft of the Second World War. The Piper Cub is history that deserves to be remembered.
Throughout its history, Washington, DC has been the destination of demonstrators seeking to promote a wide variety of causes. Most of the time, the gatherings have been peaceful. One of the exceptions was the Bonus army in March of 1932.
This presentation by Jimmy Corsetti will likely blow your mind. 250 photos and comparisons of archeological sites around the world show that there is a LOT more to the story of our ancient past than what is in the textbooks.
Here's Part 2 of my live conversation with Graham Hancock where we discussed the theories there was once a great civilisation in the lost city of Atlantis wiped out by a great flood.
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International Man: The economic, political, social, and cultural situation seems to have become increasingly volatile in the United States and more broadly in the West. Is this a unique situation or part of a recurring historical cycle?
Recently a friend sent me a snippet of a conversation he saw in an online community. It read, Public school attendance is indoctrination in obedience. That's a stark statement, but what struck me was not its bluntness, but that it has become common
The codex was dutifully written under the direction of Spanish officials in Mexico City alongside several Aztec scribes and artists. Once it was complete, it was named after Mendoza as its first known owner.
In the 17th century, the Codex Mendoza
Bank runs have been a recurring phenomenon throughout the history of modern banking systems, often resulting in significant economic and social consequences.
Paul writes in to ask if I have the full JFK "secret society" speech. Why, yes, I do! And guess what? The full speech shows that those highly-edited two-minute YouTube videos you saw back in the day were misleading at best and downright dishonest at
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