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To Arm or Not to Arm -- the Free Syrian Army (February 23, 2012)
Steve Jobs, Drugs and Creativity (November 27, 2011)
The Debt Crisis (November 23, 2011)
Niall Ferguson and the West's Death Spiral (Nov 12, 2011)
Civil war in Syria (Nov 9, 2011)
Ayn Rand and Individualism (Nov 4, 2011)
Daniel Mitchell against Obama on Intelligence Squared (October 28, 2011)
Asssad, Violence and Arendt (Oct 25, 2011)
Demonstrations and Electoral Politics (Oct 18, 2011)
Income Distribution (Oct 16, 2011)
Blurred thinking about Europe (Sep 27, 2011)
History from Ancient to Modern
What is Civilization, a criticism of Will Durant (July 16, 2009)
Wisdom and Antiquity (October 17, 2010)
Political Decline in Ancient Rome(February 23, 2011)
Zealots and Marie Antoinette (June 26, 2010)
Most Important Person in the 20th Century?
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
Methodology
A New Problem for Historians (December 5, 2010)
Glenn Beck, Educator (September 12, 2010)
Hagee, McCain and History Methodology (Feb 2008)
Conflict Analysis and Reza Aslan (Feb 2007)
Ask God? (Nov 2011)
Politics and Economics
Mistakes and U.S. Wealth since the 1960s (Jan 12, 2010)
Creativity and Private Funding (June 12, 2011)
Tea Party Anti-Socialism (Sep 25, 2011)
Wealth Distribution and Culture (Dec 8, 2010)
Election Summary (Nov 9, 2010)
Debate: Big Government and the American Sprit (October 30, 2010)
What Stinks on Wall Street (Sep 30, 2010)
Will Greece Collapse? (May 8, 2010)
Economic Progress (March 6, 2010)
Healthcare Reform (March 2009)
A Clash of Civilizations?
Islamic Civilization and Diffusion (Jul 31, 2007)
Clash of Civilizations -- a Bad Idea (September 12, 2010)
Common Cowardice (Aug 21, 2010)
Jihad for a New Caliphate (2008)
Should Americans Fear Islam? (Oct 4, 2010)
Debate on Islam: So What? (Oct 12, 2010)
Politics and War
Success and War: World War II to Afghanistan (Feb 1, 2011)
War and Capitalism (Oct 20, 2007)
Horror, Hamburg and 9/11 (Sep 11, 2002)
Military experience and political wisdom (Jul 23, 2008)
Understanding War (Dec 25, 2007)
War or Peace, Violence or Non-Violence
Victor Davis Hanson and World War I
Military Bases around the World
Politics in General
George Will and Individualism (October 14, 2011)
Choice and the U.S. Constitution
Dirty Politics and Guilt by Association (May 14, 2008)
Nonsense about Whether You Should Vote
Big Tent Politics (2006)
An International Community? (April 5, 2009)
Anarchism (2009)
Population Growth
Montana, the Last Best Place (Nov 12, 2008)
Population Growth (2005-06)
Morality
Good and Evil, History, You and the Rest of Us (May 27, 2011)
Honor, its Restoration and Glenn Beck (September 1, 2010)
Ingmar Bergman and Revenge (Aug 2, 2007)
Awareness
The Bell Curve, Nationality and Race
Miscellaneous Ahistorical Stuff
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