Conservative Historian
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History is too important to be left to the left. The Conservative Historian provides history governed by conservative principles. It is comprehensively researched but also entertainingly presented in a way accessible to history or non history buffs.
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Mar 7, 2024 • 29min
Party Crashings
Send us Fan MailWe explore the shifts in the party system from the early Republic to the Progressive Era and ask: Are we seeing a significant party shift in real time?
Feb 29, 2024 • 29min
Rank Rankings: Something Smells Bad About APSA"s Latest Presidential Survey
Send us Fan MailThe latest academic ranking of presidents is out. I discuss the bias inherent in these rankings and propose a better way to look at our presidents.
Feb 22, 2024 • 53min
Politics, Parenting and History
Send us Fan MailJeff Mayhugh of the Politics and Parenting Podcast joins to discuss some of his key historical influencers including Truman, Madison and Lincoln. We also discuss some contemporary politics through the prism of history.
Feb 16, 2024 • 53min
Movies from 2023 (and a few from 2024)
Send us Fan MailMy brother CL and I discuss movies from 2023 including the Oscar nominees. We go from Barbie to Oppenheimer, from Napoleon to The Holdovers with many movie stops along the way.
Feb 9, 2024 • 30min
The Rot in Our Institutions - Part Four: Life and Liberty
Send us Fan MailWe explore necessary government institutions such as the Army, the FBI and the IRS to see the challenges they face today, and possible fixes.
Feb 2, 2024 • 43min
The Rot in Our Institutions – Part Three: My Time With the AMA
Send us Fan MailI spent nearly 2 years with the AMA, an organization that should be vital to medicine but is too focused on leftist issues.
Jan 26, 2024 • 46min
The Rot in Our Institutions – Part Two: Fixing the Academy
Send us Fan MailWe explore the influence of 1960s radicals, federal student loans and the administrative bloat on the academy. We then provide seven ways to fix what ails our university system.
Jan 19, 2024 • 52min
The Rot in Our Institutions - Part One: The Academy
Send us Fan MailWe begin this four part series with a look at the rot of the academy through the prism of the Claudine Gay scandal.
Jan 11, 2024 • 28min
Taiwan: Flashpoint in the East
Send us Fan MailWe provide a history of Taiwan, the Chinese Civil War, and the the state of the island today.
Jan 4, 2024 • 26min
Form Without Substance: Tojo, Trump, Biden and The Squire of Gothos
Send us Fan MailWe go to ancient Japan, Star Trek and our two current presidential leads for 2024 to explore the concept of form without substance.
