Were 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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Climate science or climate “science”?
David Friedman is a very intelligent man and I wouldn’t want to face him in a debate, even on a topic I feel well-informed about. He’s not a scientist and hasn’t made a serious study of climate but he...
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QotD: “I love Big Brother!”
I suppose my defeatist attitude is precisely what they — they being governments and corporations — are trying to cultivate with all of this oppression. I don’t relish the Winston Smith role. I’ll just...
View ArticleLook at Life – The Car Has Wings (1963)
Classic Vehicle Channel Published Apr 19, 2020 Transporting cars by sea, air and rail. This film features wonderful traffic archives. Related posts: Look at Life – Oil Aboard (1963) Look at Life –...
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How Britain got out of the Great Depression (and no, it wasn’t WW2)
Tim Worstall, in refuting something being pushed by Willie Hutton, explains how the British government escaped from the Great Depression and set off a nice little boom in the mid- to late-1930s:...
View ArticleThe Battle of Berlin! – WW2 – Week 296 – April 27, 1945
World War Two Published 27 Apr 2024 The battle for the German capital rages on all week, as the Soviets get ever closer to the Reich Chancellery, under which lies Hitler’s bunker. Berlin is...
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QotD: The draft
What frightened me was not going to Vietnam. What frightened me was going in the Army. The haircut, the uniform, the discipline: If I’d been allowed to go to Vietnam in my old clothes … The minute the...
View ArticleBattle Rifles of World War Two: Overview
Forgotten Weapons Published Jan 26, 2024 Today we are going to take a look at the three main battle rifles of World War Two — the M1 Garand, the SVT-40, and the Gewehr 43. We will also consider the...
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“The Earth goes around the Sun, or so they would have you believe …”
Colby Cosh on a recent “grand theory” from Andrea Matranga, an Italian economist who outlined his thoughts in a paper accepted by the Quarterly Journal of Economics, summarized in the sub-hed...
View ArticleGreek History and Civilization, Part 7 – Alexander
seangabb Published Apr 28, 2024 This seventh lecture in the course covers the career of Alexander the Great and its consequences for the world. Books by Sean Gabb:...
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“The disaster at Imphal was perhaps the worst of its kind yet chronicled in...
Dr. Robert Lyman makes the case for the Japanese defeat at the battles of Imphal and Kohima being one of the four great turning points in the Second World War: It is clear to me that the great twin...
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