History
A Philosopher’s Dozen: Unveiling Voltaire’s Alphabetical Wisdom
By Nick Deiuliis The Frenchman François-Marie Arouet (1694-1788) was one of history’s greatest minds. Who? You may better recognize him ...
History Hiding in Hotels: The Hague’s Hotel Des Indes
By Nick Deiuliis Humans are odd creatures. We spend billions of dollars and invest precious free time to travel and ...
Making Alexander Great: Five Secret Ingredients
By Nick Deiuliis The moniker, Alexander the Great, is befitting of the man’s historical resume. Macedonian ruler of the known ...
William Jennings Bryan: America’s Forgotten Political Titan
By Nick Deiuliis The most prominent figures in American political history occupied the White House as president. But there are ...
The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti: Tragic Failure of the American Ideal
By Nick Deiuliis The summer of 1921 was a memorable time in America: Babe Ruth was having one of the ...
Echoes from 1961: Ike’s Fear of Red Scare Consequences and Today’s Crisis of Code Red
By Nick Deiuliis In January 1961, as President Eisenhower was preparing to move out of the White House and exit ...
A Tribute to Mr. O and the Bonds of Western Pennsylvania
By Nick Deiuliis Movie fans marvel how actors on the big screen are famously linked within six degrees of separation ...
Harvesting History: Farmer Activism is Democracy’s Early Warning System
By Nick Deiuliis Elites have a long history of looking down on and patronizing the working classes. It’s a sad ...
It’s Time: Five Baseball Greats Deserving Spots in the Cooperstown Lineup
By Nick Deiuliis Listening yet again to Billy Crystal and the rest of the geriatric New York-centric elite wax on ...
The Illusion of “The End of History?”: Unraveling Fukuyama’s Miscalculations
By Nick Deiuliis Today the world is trembling with international strife. Russia continuing its brutal grind in Ukraine, Iran funding ...
Notes from the Underground: Libertarianism Hiding in Classic Lit
By Nick Deiuliis Fyodor Dostoyevsky is widely recognized as one of the giants of literature. Of his most noted works, ...
The Battle of Hurtgen Forest: Costly Failure and Lessons Learned
By Nick Deiuliis Those with a keen interest in World War II are familiar with the European Theater’s famous Allied ...
The Definitive Battle of the Civil War
The Civil War holds a unique space in the American experience. We’ve been taught it in high school, entertained with ...
When a Blinded 1930s Writer Saw the 2022 Future
Aldous Huxley, the English author, was blinded for nearly two years by infection when he was a teenager. Despite his ...
Heed the Historical Rhyming of Ludwig von Mises’ Omnipotent Government
Ludwig von Mises was a shining light in the Austrian school of economics and for libertarianism. Despite the obsession Keynesians ...
Eight Teachings for Business Leaders from the Battle of Midway
This June marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway—a battle that proved the turning point in the Pacific ...
Plagues and Pandemics – Then and Now
The great Mark Twain quipped that history never repeats itself, but it rhymes. Sometimes the rhyming can span thousands of years. Such is the case ...
Malta: World War II’s Most Intriguing “What If?”
The Irresistibility of World War II “What Ifs?” History buffs love to contemplate alternative scenarios. World War II is a ...
Who’s Big Tech’s Daddy? Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Carnegie
Over the past 150 years, starting with post-Civil War Reconstruction, America has delivered to the world the largest improvement in ...