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The Olympics are over, but there's still a good story to tell and you'll have to pretend this was more timely. This year, for the XXXIII...

1968 was a tumultuous year of protest. Anti-government and anti-authoritarian sentiment, amongst a host of other issues, resulted in...

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France during World War II. It was the largest...

Maybe you've heard about the new show from FX (and Hulu) called Shōgun. It's a mini-series, meaning one season only, and is an adaptation...

I've been reading Polybius, 'The Histories' (or according to Penguin Classics, 'The Rise of the Roman Empire'). A second century BC Greek...

The ongoing war in Gaza is not the only major event currently on-going in the Middle East. As a direct result of the war the Houthis, a...

I've meant to write more about Israel and the Middle East at large since the Oct 7th attacks, but life is busy, you know? Still the...

At some point or another you've likely heard that Christmas, the observance of Jesus' birth, is celebrated on different dates by...

On Saturday October 7, 2023 Israel was attacked. It was Hamas, the terrorist group that's controlled Gaza since 2007, that invaded the...

Recently I (re)watched s1 of HBO's Rome and mostly decided against writing about it. Then, for a few days at least, the online discourse...

When talking about ancient Greece it's easy to make generalizations. Most of our hard evidence from that era comes from Athens, home to...

In the third and second centuries BC the powers of the Mediterranean were the Roman Republic and Carthage in the west and the Hellenistic...

In case you couldn't tell, I've really been into ancient Greece lately. After hearing about it a couple times in other books, I decided...

I think most Americans know the broader definition of western civilization goes back through medieval Europe to Rome and, ultimately, to...

We spent our Thanksgiving down in Arizona. Much of my family is down there, including my parents, and we split our time between the 'East...

As we all likely know, Queen Elizabeth II, 'the Queen' our entire lives (unless you're far older than I) passed away in September. She...

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's trip to Asia, including a stop in Taiwan, has been a big topic of conversation. China tells us it...

Abortion is the topic of the day as a new Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (i.e. 'Dobbs') overruled...

Back in March President Biden condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and spoke not only to the citizens of the United States but those...

In looking at the history of Russia, so far we've examined the country's gargantuan size and the actions of Stalin leading to Nazi...