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July 15, 2021 Henry VIII, Marcus Aurelius, Abdul Aziz and Voting in a Republic
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Historically, monarchs have tended to see the state, the needs of their subjects, and their own beliefs and desires as one in the same. We have a political faction that echoes that sentiment. Learn what Henry VIII and Marcus Aurelius tell us about these fusions, and what it means for voting today.
25 min
July 08, 2021 They Blinded Me With Science
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Who are the science deniers? We look at the use of science to justify public policy and hear from Aristotle, Galileo, Isaac Newton, and the great 80s pop artist Thomas Dolby.
31 min
July 03, 2021 A Brief History of Taxation
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We go from the banks of the Nile to the Ancient Chinese Empires to Medieval Barons and restive British colonists to explore that challenging dynamic of taxation. We also look at our modern US tax situation and ask whether it is good to a be millionaire in California.
49 min
June 26, 2021 The Hollywood Dilemma
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We discuss the challenges that woke and Critical Race Theory ideology create in the movie industry today, particularly in the making of historical movies.
49 min
June 21, 2021 Top Ten Historical Movies that Should Be Made
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Hollywood has made movies about Cleopatra, Sir Thomas More and innumerable ones about World War II. This is a list of movies that should be made.
27 min
June 16, 2021 Who's in Charge? A History of Figurehead Rulers
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We go from Medieval France to Medieval Japan to 20th Century Germany and back to Tudor England on a tour of figureheads throughout history. Clovis, Kammu and Hindenburg all make an appearance. So does a 78 year old American President.
25 min
June 06, 2021 What is Conservative History
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On my Twitter feed I am often castigated for essentially doing what the left does with history: cherry picking a fact, and spinning a conservative narrative. That is not conservative history so here I attempt to define it by citing everyone from Herodotus to the Mongols to Barack Obama.
22 min
June 01, 2021 The Purpose of a Military
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A military exists for two primary reasons: to deter and if necessary, destroy foreign aggression towards the citizenry. Yet in 2021 our military is asked to be diverse, to help with equity and even to (somehow) combat climate change. We take a look at militaries throughout histories, the successful and not so successful and bring these lessons to our times.
34 min
May 27, 2021 Two States: A Brief History of the Jews and Israel - Part II
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We outline the Arab/Islamic conquests of the Middle East to 1948. From there we view the history of Israel to the modern day and explain our support for the Jewish nation.
53 min
May 23, 2021 To Your Offspring I will Give this Land: A Brief History of the Jews and Israel - Part I
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The Israeli Palestinian conflict is in the news - again. We go back over 4,000 years to the beginning of the Jewish nation and walk through their history up to 1948. This Part I of a history of the Jews and Israel. In Part II we go form 1948 until the present day.
29 min

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History is too important to be left to the left. The Conservative Historian provides history governed by conservative principles. It is comprehensively researched but also entertainingly…