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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Apr 3, 2025 • 60min
Chinese Dreams and History: An Interview with Professor Stephen R Platt
Send us Fan MailWe cover the Opium Wars, the Taiping Civil War and Stephen Platt's new book: Raider. We also take a look at current China.
Mar 27, 2025 • 31min
Readying for Surrender: The Lack of Money and Decline of Military Power in History
Send us Fan MailWe look at 17th century Spain as an example of how a great power can decline and fail when it takes on too much debt. A lesson for the US.
Mar 21, 2025 • 34min
Perversions of History: The Platforming of Darryl Cooper and Martyr Made
Send us Fan MailHistory denigrating the United States, celebrating dictators and crafting false and misleading narratives used to be the purview of the left. Now we have it on the right.
Mar 13, 2025 • 54min
Movies from the 1990s and Today
Send us Fan MailWe compare the 1995 Best Picture Oscars with 2025. Then my brother Chris and I ask the question: What the heck happened?
Mar 6, 2025 • 31min
Top Ten Diplomatic Blunders in History
Send us Fan MailThink the Oval Office imbroglio with Zelensky, Vance and Trump was bad? We have at least ten worse diplomatic blunders.
Feb 27, 2025 • 21min
Bouncing Back: History Shows the Democrats Could Rebound Quickly
Send us Fan MailAmidst lots of boasting among MAGA this is a warning against hubris. We have seen "permanent" majorities be not so permanent.
Feb 20, 2025 • 28min
Revisiting the Crusades
Send us Fan MailWere the crusades about liberating the holy land, the clash of Christianity vs. Islam, or western colonization? We explore all these views and provide a descriptor of some key events.
Feb 13, 2025 • 31min
Overreach: The Role of Executive Power
Send us Fan MailWe explore the inaugural addresses of Cleveland, Coolidge, FDR, Reagan and more recent presidents to understand the role of executive power.
Feb 7, 2025 • 32min
Trade Wind-bags: A Tale of Three Tariffs
Send us Fan MailWe look at the 1890 McKinley Tariff, 1930 Smoot Hawley (anyone?) and Trump's Tariff schemes.
Jan 31, 2025 • 21min
The Perils of Single Person Rule
Send us Fan MailOur Republic was built to resist single person rule in the guise of monarchs or cults. We go to medieval England and meet Henry III then move to the present to illustrate this point.
