Tag Archives: History

"I was a woman, and this revolution's victory demanded my defeat."

If you wanted to know about the Civil War and had only time or inclination to read one book, this should be it.

Public support depends on producing results as promised. That's the real lesson they've failed to learn from the Vietnam War.

Why might these societies, living in what we might think of as an idyllic world, have chosen to create such fearsome deities?

Superstition is the stuff of ignorance and fear which gives rise to hatred and intolerance.

A well-reasoned and credible, although not always convincing, view of "the historical Jesus" and the origins and development of Christianity.

We are scared and react emotionally to that which we don't understand.

If you met a person of the 14th century, you'd find they were astonishingly ignorant and astonishingly wrongheaded. Yet religion hasn't changed since then.

Stop allowing the enemy to define the terms and thus dictate the rules of engagement.

It is far easier to try to kill someone than to get to know them.