Sunday, November 13, 2016

Are We the Roman Republic?

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History is fascinating in more ways than one. It is, first and foremost, a rollicking good story, with amazing characters and unbelievable p...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

What If Czarevitch Alexei Had Not Had Hemophilia?

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Like many other people who have been fascinated by the tragic story of Czar Nicolas II of Russia and his family, I first encountered it by r...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Reflections On a Bowl of Black Eyed Peas

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Recently, I sat down with my wife and two daughters to a nice dinner around the kitchen table. Amelia, all of four months old, can't eat...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

President Should Be Chosen By Direct National Vote

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It being a presidential election year, pretty much all that the news media is talking about is the contest between Hillary Clinton and Donal...
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

What If the Confederates Had Resorted to Partisan Warfare in 1865?

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April of 1865 was the month in which the Confederacy was utterly crushed. The first day of the month saw the Southerners suffer a terrible d...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

An Ordinary Day in the First World War

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One hundred years ago today, September 18, 1916, was a fairly typical day during the First World War. Lots of things were going on around th...
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Sunday, September 4, 2016

Ranked Choice Voting Would Improve American Democracy

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Back in July, I wrote about the urgent need for reforming the system in which congressional and state legislative districts are drawn . Toda...