KICKING IT TO THE MOON? Canada’s Military Procurement: A history of broken...
Esprit de Corps Canadian Military Magazine Published Apr 22, 2024 The Liberal government have finally released their long awaited Defence Policy Update which promises billions of dollars in increased...
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Debating the economic impact of the Raj on India
At The Daily Sceptic, Nigel Biggar looks at a few books making or refuting the narrative on how much or how little British rule in India extracted or contributed to the economic life of the...
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QotD: The psychological trap for teens in our social media-saturated era
I’ve written a lot on how teenagerhood used to be. In my day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, it was just given that any one person would “be” many different things over the course of his or her...
View ArticleWhat Were Victorian Attitudes Towards Sex?
History Hit Published Dec 15, 2023 They’re famously thought of as a buttoned up prudish bunch, but we all know they loved to bump uglies as much as anyone today. Were the spanking punishments of...
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Alternative für Deutschland is gifted a blueprint for governing by their...
Was it Napoleon who said to never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake? If so, the German populist Alternative für Deutschland leaders must be congratulated for not interrupting the...
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“What is to be done?”– N.S. Lyons at the National Conservatism Conference in...
I suspect the recent National Conservatism Conference in Brussels would have been a mere blip in the media if it hadn’t been for the dedicated and persistent efforts of local Belgian politicians and...
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Australia cribs from Trudeau’s notes and tries to censor the internet outside...
Tim Worstall explains to the Australian federal government why their attempt to force Elon Musk to obey Australian diktats on Twit-, er, I mean “X” outside Australia is extreme over-reach and should be...
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QotD: The risks of artificial intelligence
Unfortunately, pickleball wasn’t the only existential threat to emerge in 2023. There was also Artificial Intelligence, or AI. What is AI? To put it in simple layperson terms, it is a computer thing...
View ArticleThe Handley Page Hampden; A Plane for Fat Shaming
Ed Nash’s Military Matters Published Apr 29, 2022 One of the key British bombers at the start of the war, the Hampden was eclipsed by its more successful equivalent, the Vickers Wellington, and the...
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Jeremy Black reviews Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera
The author of a book on the same topic says that Sathnam Sanghera’s work “really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history“: With its pretensions and authorial conceit, Sanghera’s...
View ArticleWere the Waffen-SS Really Germany’s Elite Fighters? – WW2 – OOTF 35
World War Two Published 24 Apr 2024 It’s time for another thrilling installment of Out of the Foxholes, but what sort of questions does Indy answer today? Well, it’s good stuff — about Allied security...
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“… good Lord, is [Chrystia Freeland] ever terrible at politics”
In The Line, Matt Gurney recounts Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s terrible response to a topical question from a reporter: Screencap from a CPAC video of Chrystia Freeland speaking in...
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QotD: The secret rulers of Japan
Okay, but how well does that version of history line up with the reality of Japanese government in the second half of the 20th century? Johnson brings a lot of evidence to back up his claim that Japan...
View ArticleGuns for the Pope’s Police: Mazzocchi Pinfire Revolver
Forgotten Weapons Published Jan 22, 2024 The revolver we are looking at today is a 9mm pinfire revolver adopted for the Papal Gendarmerie in 1868. At that time, the Papal States controlled roughly the...
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Economic inefficiencies in the water market? Don’t worry, here’s the...
Tim Worstall discusses the economics of water markets in the US … that Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ro Khanna seem determined to make far less efficient if their plans come to fruition:...
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The British Army from the start of the Cold War
Dr. Robert Lyman discusses the state of the British Army through the Cold War years down to today, with emphasis on the defence budget tracking against perceived threats to the UK and allies over that...
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Out –“GenZ”: In –“Waffen ZZ“
Peachy Keenan invites us to meet the new hotness, the Zoomerwaffen: These crazy Zoomer kids are bringing back all the old trends: baggy jeans, the band Sublime, and casual, no-big-deal, fanatical...
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QotD: Roman magistrates during the middle Republican period
Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those assemblies had, we noted, was the election of magistrates, the...
View ArticleFloating Fun: The History of the Amphibious Boat Car
Ed’s Auto Reviews Published Aug 9, 2023 A classic car connoisseur dives into the general history of amphibious cars and vehicles. When did people start to build boat-car crossovers? What made Hans...
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“… when it comes to energy policy Germany is an undisputed champion of crazy”
eugyppius explains how Angela Merkel’s government reacted to the Japanese Fukushima disaster in a sane, measured, and sensible way … naw, I’m pulling your leg. They looked at all the options and then...
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