Tell Me Why

wouldn't a barbarian horde, after killing off all the males, put to the sword as well some recalcitrant or stubborn female who refused to submit?

Hunters Were Not Vegan?

In a major blow to vegan beliefs/pride, early humans were actually apex predators who hunted large animals for two million years before they sought vegetables to supplement their diet. https://t.co/o0XZ74A9SO

— Andrew Mente (@andrewmente) April 12, 2021

Things We Didn't Learn at Uni

This is an important article. The history of hard decisions, conquest and defeat, real heroes and real villains should never be pushed away. https://t.co/Qc3RCQRhkL

— Tim Wood 🏴‍☠️ (@TimOnPoint) February 9, 2021

The Anarcho-Primitivist Thesis, Again

@KaraCooney @WinterOakPress @NewYorker What is an "employment ledger" ? "It is the “impact metrics” that enable the world’s richest to profit off misery." Alison McDowell 'Population Health, Human Capital Bonds, & Black America https://t.co/OHOJAZjsx6 - https://t.co/kh6mynyq6K

— Derek Diamond (@dcareydiamond) January 19, 2021

Liberals Aren't Responsible for the First

Not even if we consider reovolutions that toppled monarchies; they may have assisted in those revolutions, but they weren't the only ones participating and liberalism wasn't the only agenda.

Some risky gambles by Western liberals that at first seemed highly plausible, but were always belied by most of history:

(1) Large republics are indefinitely sustainable
(2) Catholicism can be domesticated
(3) Constitutions can be deliberately made
(4) China can be subordinated

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) December 28, 2020

Unsustainable Development

The earliest 'civilizations' were in the middle east, where the draw on the earth from farming for surpluses turned oak and pistachio forests to the arid places we see now.

— Karen Goaman (@KGoaman) December 24, 2020

Tony Blauer Interviews Steven Pressfield

What an honor it was for me to interview Steven Pressfield. I have been a huge fan of his for a long time. Years ago I read the Legend of Bagger Vance and Gates of Fire and was deeply moved by both books. https://t.co/rZkWELjTd0

— tonyblauer (@tonyblauer) December 4, 2020

Derek Turner Reviews Humankind

"Are human beings essentially killer apes, or egalitarian pacifists? In Humankind, Rutger Bregman argues we are not as bad as we believe we are, and by believing we are bad, we may be making ourselves so.” Derek Turner writes in the November Chronicles: https://t.co/HmxhsCGVv6

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) November 27, 2020

Little, Brown and Company

Another Recommendation for the Essay on Peter Turchin in The Atlantic

A great piece by @gcaw for @TheAtlantic digging into @Peter_Turchin and others' explorations of the small sample size of 200 generations of humans to understand deeper historical patterns, including: will civilization persist or explode into violence? https://t.co/4u0346fe1X

— The Gaian Way (@GaianWay) November 22, 2020

Will and Ariel Durant

"Given all the upheavals and poisonous discontent of this present year, with an acrimonious presidential election on the horizon, I could use the antidotes provided by the Durants.” https://t.co/eufXQOQA1m

— Intellectual Takeout (@intellectualTO) October 6, 2020

The Historical Mind

Babbitt and Ryn both cautioned against..the “idyllic imagination” which finds the highest virtue in a gushing sentimentalism where the essence of morality is found in the unleashing of potential human goodness from the predations of tradition and society. https://t.co/kBe8qLvEeh

— University Bookman (@ubookman) September 14, 2020

SUNY Press: The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age, edited by Justin D. Garrison and Ryan R. Holston

A Book on John Marshall

Looks like a great production. Of course you and I disagree on Marshall, but I would suggest everyone read your book as the best on Marshall from the nationalist perspective. https://t.co/tJxEro6L7H

— Brion McClanahan (@BrionMcClanahan) August 10, 2020

Richard Brookhiser, John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court - Basic Books




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Culture, History, and Identity

John Devanny, Jr.: America’s Culture War: The Long View

The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have their history broken down by decades, as if culture, politics, and society change on cue with the arrival of a new decade. The takeover of the schools and universities by Cultural Marxists and their fellow travelers has made the situation worse. Under their tutelage the study of history has degenerated into a species of cultural revolution, Maoist, style, complete with denunciation, servility on the part of the accused, and the substitution of ignorant invective for understanding.

I Don't Trust Haidt's Endorsement

But the book could be interesting--I want to see the evidence for all of these "early democracies."

Princeton University Press: The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage

A key idea for understanding when democracy arises is to look at when leaders need consent and participation in order to govern. Technological advances and development of effective bureaucracy make autocracy easier.
Check out the book here:https://t.co/j87iBIGOrX

— Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) June 16, 2020

Straussian Genealogy Needs to Go Away

An essential text to understand the current moment, and how we arrived here, is Leo Strauss's "Three Waves of Modernity." Published in 1975, it was a distillation of his thinking about the political crisis of the modern world, namely ideologies of liberalism, Marxism and fascism.

— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) June 14, 2020

Straussian genealogy is a poor substitute for actual historiography, even if some Roman Catholic intellectuals have appropriated it. The problem is sin leading to the development and rise of the state; there's no need to replace historiography with the fallacy of reification.

Apostles of Empire by Bronwen McShea

University of Nebraska Press - the author's website and Twitter

Just finished @bronwenmcshea’s “Apostles of Empire”. It’s excellent. The story of the French Jesuits in New France provides plenty of food for thought as regards the relationship between Christians and the temporal power in non-liberal societies. https://t.co/FtdKZ0rLqr

— William (@Amariusque) May 11, 2020

CWR: A Jesuit Empire by Dr. Samuel Gregg
Bronwen McShea’s Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France demonstrates how French Jesuits simultaneously spread the Catholic Faith and the cause of France in the New World.

Thomistic Institute: Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France | Prof. Bronwen McShea

Adrian Vermeule's review for America Magazine

The Bloody History of Mankind

This 📷 is the remains of a massive Bronze Age battlefield at Tollense (🇩🇪) with an estimated 5,000 combatants.

Research in 🅰 2008 found arrow wounds that had started to heal, suggesting the fight took place over several days (£) https://t.co/nZJBXSkyFF pic.twitter.com/B2HWDT8x8M

— 🅰ntiquity Journal (@AntiquityJ) April 1, 2020

The Islands

The Legacy of Southern Partisan

Abbeville Institute: The Defense of Southern History by Boyd Cathey

The Hand of God?

66 million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor (via Steve Sailer)