It can be real easy to get depressed if you don’t know history. Once again, as we look around our poor old planet, we see tyranny on the march. From Vlad Putin’s legions in Ukraine to Xi Jiping’s threats against…

Well, I am late to the party, but my wife and I finally went to see this “Top Gun: Maverick” flick. We usually wait until it’s shown in the cheap theatre (you know, where you have to bring your own…

We can see many successful nation-states in our world today: France, the United States, and Japan are just a few examples. Sadly our world also shows us quite a few examples of “failed” or even “collapsed” nation-states. According to the…

The Protestant Reformation was certainly fueled in some part by feelings of nationalism (identifying one’s self as a particular people group known for it’s language, religion, and other geographical and cultural distinctions). The new nationalistic feelings of the German-speaking people,…

We often assume that whatever we experience today is what all people have experienced for millennia. We take for granted that we have a government–one with a fixed set of largely agreed upon laws, a common language, a defined and…

Mao Zedong’s Red Guard in the 1960’s and 70’s demanded 100% ideological purity from not only their followers, but also from every single Chinese on the mainland. Even if someone were Marxist, they had to be the “right kind of…

By now anyone paying attention in the US have heard about Antifa– the so-called “anti-fascists” who are the union of various communist and anarchist factions. Most Americans are certainly aware of white supremacist factions (various Ku Klux Klan groups, Unite…