Sitemap - 2025 - Outside the Academy w/ Prof. Thompson
2026: WWI/II and the American Revolution
Missed 30 under 30? That's okay. You are in life for the long haul. Most success comes later.
Who broke the links to the elite Protestant past for evangelicals?
Oversight Theater: The NDAA and the Illusion of Congressional Control
Speculative Fiction and the American Historian
It is okay to be tired and content
The Accidental European Century?
But What if Lee Won Gettysburg?
America's Road Back Will Be Long, Start Walking Now
SAFE and Sorry: Canada's Pivot Away from American Defense
Anglicanism, the Interwar Church, and the Hypocrisy Problem
No Wise Men, No Fools, No Hope?
The Anglican Anxiety and the Struggle for Modernity
It's Not Just The Economist Anymore: The Global Elite Is Writing Off American Integrity
America is Acting Like a Third World Country With a First World Military. We Are Getting Played.
The Fall of Troy: The Fortunes of Hoover's 1930 GOP
Did MTG See the Light? On Apologies, Audiences, and the Difference Between Regret and Repentance
Do The Senate Democrats Face The Illusion of a Choiceless Choice or The Real Thing?
How Italy's Sacred Egoism Left the Catholic Order Dizzy and Hungover
In Virginia, Elections Are Only the Beginning
How the British Commonwealth Finally Accepted that the American Founders Were Right...
Why the Great American Context Collapse Matters for Conservatives and Democrats
The American People are Thirsty for Candor
The Rapture, the Ghosts and the Dragon: China on the Eve of World War One and the Warning to America
Chinese Ghidorah: the Mouths that Devoured the Chinese Dream
Pathway Dependencies: Why Young Men Do Not Know How to Become Men
Trump Has His Ceasefire, Now the Test: Do we really know or care what Palestinians want?
Faramir on the Throne: the Rise of the Knight King
The Anti-Woke/Woke Discourse over Columbus Day is Bankrupt, His Heirs Are Not
The Trump Pax. Mr. President, don't worry about the Nobel, Secure the Peace.
On Jay Jones, Virginia Democrats have to think like Virginians
Palestine Wasn't Conquered from Arabs or by Israelis. Here's the Truth.
Another Moses who envisioned but did not make it to the Promised Land
The insufficiency of Versailles: Germany 1930
Malice toward none or all? The USA must choose.
Beneath the Great War: The Globe and the Continent in 1914
Charlie Kirk was not a martyr for free speech. It is worse than that.
Contextualizing 19th Century Zionism
Mourn the Dead. Stop Waving Bloody Shirts.
The Greek Dark Ages and Reemergence (1000-750 B.C.)
What We Mean by “Civilization”
The Sneaker Saint: "War" on Woke, Armani Hits 50/Dies.
You Want to Talk About Nationalism
Can Texas Gerrymander the Senate Too?
Graft, the Fake Moral Scapegoating of Gays, and Fascist Gangsterism
End Presidential Purse Snatching
The Trump Parallax: Why America Can't See Straight
Cut the Presidency Back to Size
War Trucks Don’t Belong in City Traffic
Our Lazy Online Arguments & Clapbacks Broke Our Conversational Democracy: The Answer Is 42
V-J Day in the UK, MAGA Californication, and the Summit in the Last Frontier
America Uber Alles, America Ichiban: Pondering the End of the Greatest War
Providence Magazine: As Memories of WWII Fade, Americans Must Choose to Learn Its Lessons
The Great Anglican Credibility Failure
Israel-Palestine and Pain Catastrophizing
From Cotton Fields to Data Farms: Progress as the Excuse for Exploitation and Intrusion
Friday, August 1, AD2025 — American Culture, Christian Shifts, and the Postwar Order
Hey, UK, Baby You Got My Money, 'Cause I'm Worried
Facing Difficulty: Rhetoric and Responsibility in an Age of Alarm
Hitler’s America Problem: Germanic Envy of Greater America
Why America Needs Anti-Racialism
July 18, AD2025: Epstein Listgate, Impunity, and the American Need to Touch the Untouchable
The Test of War: God, America and Old Europe
DEI: Desperate, Exhausted, Intellectuals; Race and Peace Beyond Validation
July 11, AD2025, the Problem of SCOTUS Confusion and Average Leaders in an Extraordinary Time
France and the Royal Tradition after 1940 - Another post-Normandy reflection
Grief and God in the Texas Hill Country
July 4, AD2025, 249 Years and We Are Not Done; But Global Trade Networks Will Not Wait Forever
After Visiting the German Military Cemetery in Normandy I Am Convinced Our Kids Would Do It Again
I never planned to become an essayist or a dragoman.
June 27, AD2025; The Israeli-American Iran War, and the Lawyer Problem
It’s Time to Retire the Career Politician
The Interwar Land of the Aryans
Qapla’ Israel. When They Start Vowing "Retaliation" You Know They Are On The Ropes
When Affection Turns Cold: The Social Politics of Kingship, Unrequited Love, and Demanding Better
Misfire: Pelosi, the National Guard, and Article 10, Section 12046 of the Constitution? (What?!)
June 13, AD 2025, Trump's Law and Order Gamble, Democrats' Dangerous Opportunity
The Path to the Great War in the Americas
Without Order, No Justice: L.A. and the Problem of Protest, Planning, and Burning Cars
Protest, Civil Rights, and the Power of Conscience
Old Europe: America's First Annoyance
History in about a Minute: Western Civilization & Continents
History in about a Minute: The Real Macbeth
The Suicidality of Antisemitism
1776’s Late Arrivals, Gibbon and Smith in America
In Paradise's Shadow, the Gig Economy's Pathological Division of Labor
Risorgimento and the Italian Struggle for Nation, Empire and Identity
Summer, the Library, and our Third Spaces
May 9, AD2025, The Minority Pope
March 1930, An Actual Communist Coordinated Campaign Hits the Streets
If You Did The Work, You Are Ready, Not An Impostor
The Chosen Path to the Lost Russian Century
Breaking Free of Curated Disquiet: Escaping the Digital Wormtongues
Japan's 1930 Cross of Gold, Takahashi Korekiyo, and the Economics of War and Depression
Requiescat in Pace: Jorge Mario Bergoglio | Pope Francis AD1936-2025
A Meme Gone Wild: Chill and Enjoy Your Paganly Named Easter. It's Not What You Think.
April 18, AD2025. Kilmar Ábrego García, the Fed, and American Unreliability
The Old Kaiser's Peace and the new War of Spies and Shadows
The Dynamics of Constant Stimulus, False Choices of Urgency, and the Power of Pause
From History Wars to Outside the Academy: Why the Name Had to Change
When Truth Comes Late: The Social Politics of Scams, Myths, Shame, and Recovering Ourselves
1911-1913 The Italo-Ottoman and The Balkans Wars
Harnessing America's Historic Rhythm. Making the Next Reform Era
The Tradition of Liberal Nationalism
The Private Equitization of America
Trump's Address: To respond, Democrats must get serious about law and order
Ukraine must prepare to fight alone with no restraint, or submit
Trump: "Americans Speak English." Democrats, Don't Crash Out.
Should Virginia Democrats be hopeful for GOP wreck as MAGA turns on black LT Governor Winsome Sears?
Can the Democratic Party Rediscover Political Patriotism as a Virtue?
Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
Origins of Black History Month
Heritage Months and the American Dilemma
Dragon AI: China won’t fold like the USSR
Why Democracy Freezes Trump’s Greenland Dreams
He's Out. Trudeau Quits. Will Stay Until Successor Selected.
GLADIIATOR: Maximus the Lesser