I'm about to order a new batch of history books for my ever-growing library.
Do me a favour and drop your must-read titles here, plus any odd ones out. ;)
I'm thinking of the following:
- Rhodesia Accuses
- The Embarrassment of Riches
- The Pity of War
- The Forgotten Slave Trade
- Pirates of Barbary
- The Anarchy
- The Dutch East India Company: Expansion and Decline
- House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France
- Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
- De Bourgondiërs
- A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
“What the majority of people call peace is peace in name only; in actual fact, by its very nature, it is an undeclared war.”
– Plato, Laws, Book I, 626a
The British explorer gene is still alive. In 1998, Karl Bushby set out to walk from the southern tip of Chile all the way back home to England.
He thought it might take 12 years. It’s been 27.
Since then, he’s crossed jungles, deserts, frozen seas, and some of the harshest places on Earth. He made it through the Darién Gap, crossed shifting ice in the Bering Strait, dealt with arrests and visa issues, and somehow just kept going.
Now, after more than two decades on the road, he’s finally closing in on the finish, with England expected in 2026.
As I’ve noted many times, the downplaying of the Korean War as a forgotten war increasingly feels like a deliberate attempt to bury this important western victory in the Cold War.
America and its allies in UN Command saved half of Korea from Stalinism and came close to bestowing western freedom (maybe not at once, but eventual) on the entire peninsula. 52 million South Koreans live in a free, wealthy, and western democratic society with a thriving economy thanks to their and our sacrifices in this war.
Let me tell you what I love at press conference's.
I look through the crowd and I see hundreds of people black, white, brown doesn't matter but they all chant America.
Small moments like those bring me the most pride and love for OUR country.
Jordan Peterson on a truth that should humble all of us:
“I’ve never seen anyone get away with anything. Not even once.”
You might twist the fabric of reality for a while — bend the rules, cut corners, play games — but it always snaps back. Sometimes years later, in ways you never saw coming. That’s why “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” Not terror, but deep respect for the order of things.
You get away with nothing in the end.
In a culture that increasingly celebrates short-term cleverness and moral flexibility, this is a sobering reminder that reality keeps perfect score.
God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
What about you — have you ever watched someone “get away with it”… only for it to catch up with them later in unexpected ways?
Yes. When I started watching The Daily Wire three years ago, I was a freshman in high school with no real sense of direction, and I was a complete mess. I had been brainwashed by TikTok into becoming a radical liberal during COVID, but then I came across The Daily Wire, and it completely changed the trajectory of my life.
Because of people like Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, and Andrew Klavan, I stopped blaming others for the problems in my life and actually took the reins. I became Catholic, and I’m now putting myself on a path toward a successful and happy life.
Ben is one of the few people currently pushing back against this grievance culture—the idea that you can’t take control of your own life and that everyone around you is oppressing you. He continues to promote personal responsibility: that your life is your own, and you have the power to change it for the better.
At the end of the day, when all of this settles and the grievance-culture grifters are gone, Ben Shapiro will still be around. He doesn’t change what he believes on a whim, and when he does, he supports it with legitimate reasoning. He doesn’t cater to what’s popular on the internet or what will get clicks—he’s consistent, and consistency wins.
When they call you Islamophobes, I want you to remember that 200 years ago, in Chios, 42.000 Greek Christians were massacred by the Muslim Turks and 52.000 were sold into slavery. Please don't forget.