the Blatant Opinion section
about the past, present and we shall see
History from Ancient to Modern
What is Civilization, a criticism of Will Durant (July 16, 2009)
Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?
Zealots and Marie Antoinette (June 26, 2010)
Murders and the Communist Manifesto
Churchill's Pearl Harbor Warning
Japan, Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor
Germany's War to Defeat Communism
War and Presidents Truman and Johnson
Credit for the Fall of Communism
The Middle East's Forgotten Refugees
Link: On Andrew Roberts, by Jacob Weisberg (Mar 28, 2007)
Link: review of the same Roberts book by the Guardian (Oct 1, 2006)
Methodology
Politics and Economics
Honor, its Restoration and Glenn Beck (September 1, 2010)
The "Mosque" Debate (August 20, 2010)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and a Clash of Civilizations (August 26, 2010)
Common Cowardice (August 21, 2010)
Will Greece Collapse? (May 8, 2010)
Economic Progress (March 6, 2010)
Mad as Hell and ain't gonna Take it No More (February 20, 2010)
George Will, Absolutes and Cain and Abel" (April 5, 2009)
Healthcare Reform (March 2009)
Liberty (Jul 13, 2008)
False Symmetry (Sep 17, 2008)
Military experience and political wisdom (Jul 23, 2008)
Hagee, McCain and History Methodology
Dirty Politics and Guilt by Association (May 14, 2008)
A President, Telephone Calls and National Security (Mar 30, 2008)
Horowitz, Institutions and Change (Oct 7, 2007)
Choice and the U.S. Constitution
Big Tent Politics (2006)
Nonsense about Whether You Should Vote
Conflict, Religious and Political
War (an extention of Politics)
Understanding War (Dec 25, 2007)
War and Capitalism (Oct 20, 2007)
War or Peace, Violence or Non-Violence
Victor Davis Hanson and World War I
No War of Civilizations (Jul 31, 2007)
Population Growth
Montana, the Last Best Place (Nov 12, 2008)
Population Growth (2005-06)
Morality, Science and Philosophy
President Bush and Moral Relativism (Apr 17, 2008)
Moral Equivalence and Timothy McVeigh
Attitude
Ingmar Bergman and Revenge (Aug 2, 2007)
The Bell Curve, Nationality and Race
Measure, Will Power and Pomposity (Sep 26, 2007)
Miscellaneous Ahistorical Stuff