Odyssey to Oblivion
How Small Surrenders Lead to Devastating Defeats
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The Christian Iliad
The Virtues which Conquered Paganism...
Pax Romana and Pax Americana: World Peace and Asymmetric Wars in the Mirror of History
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The Coming Caesar
The Ten Conditions that Will Give Rise to Another Great Man of History
The Hero's Crossroads
The Choice of Hercules...
Austerity and the Making of Empire
Why Civilizations Fall When Religion Fades
The Most Undervalued Virtue
How Constancy saves Men and Nations...
Retreat and Rebuild or Stand and Fight?
The Benedict Option vs the Boethius Option
Metternich on How to Save the West
A warning from the 19th century...
Mysticism and Order
Religion in Eastern and Western Christianity
What Truly Makes Nations Great?
Francis Bacon on the importance of martial spirit...
The Three Readings of History
Great Man Theory, Elite History, and Historical Determinism
What Really is 'Western' Art?
How to reconnect our Art to its roots...
How Founding Myths Forge Nations and Empires
The Hero as the Architect of Civilization
How Aristocracy can Stimulate Virtue
Saint Charles Borromeo on Noble Virtue...
Why Do Nations Need Borders?
The Purpose of Physical, Religious and Cultural Boundaries
Montesquieu on How Governments Decay
What makes and breaks governments...
The Power of the Great Man
Charlemagne, Napoleon, and the making of the West
The Divine Calling of the Artist
Pope John Paul II's extraordinary appeal to the world...
Restoring the Soul of Civilization
The Maccabees, Franco, and the Pattern of Religious Revivals