About This Episode: Gerald Ford is remembered as a “normal” placeholder president — calm, forgettable, transitional. But the paper trail around Ford tells a different story: a man positioned inside the most sensitive investigations and constitutional handoffs of the...
About This Episode: Watergate wasn’t just a “third-rate burglary.” It may have been the most consequential power struggle in modern American history—one that ended with Richard Nixon resigning and Gerald Ford becoming the only unelected President in U.S. history. In...
About This Episode: Classical history is often dismissed as irrelevant — but what if it’s the one thing modern society is missing? In this episode of Hidden Forces in History, I’m joined by Alex Petkas, host of Cost of Glory, to investigate how the ancient Greek...
Divinity’s Journey Augustus changed Rome in more than one way. It was not as readily available for ruler worship as Greece. In Greece, Nudity was closely connected with the Olympian Gods; hence any moment made of a nude individual was an attempt to closely relate them...
The welfare state again. In a recent article, Patrick J. Buchanan asks the Question “Did ‘the Great Society’ Ruin society?”[1] He is onto something with this approach; he cites that almost half of all Americans are receiving some form of government assistance. America...
Picture a humid Philadelphia summer in 1787, where quill pens scratch parchment in a sweltering hall, and men like James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton wrestle with the ghosts of antiquity. They weren’t crafting a democracy—they were forging...
