Political structure matters. “neither Quintus nor Maximus are going back to their farm after this: they’re going back to Rome to be major figures in Roman politics, living on their large estates since senators were required by law to be… Read More »Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II
It’s epicly wrong. “The Roman army in this sequence has the wrong composition, is deployed incorrectly, uses the wrong tactics, has the wrong theory of victory and employs the wrong weapons and then employs them incorrectly. Perhaps most importantly the… Read More »Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part I
Or something like it.
Being right is not always the best survival strategy. “evolution doesn’t care about truth. It cares about fitness. And a belief system that produces depression, anxiety, declining fertility, and suicidal ideation at unprecedented rates might be worth examining—even if it… Read More »Materialism Is Killing You
Atomic bombs were not the main issue. The New York Review of Books Thu, Apr 9, 2026 “The prospect of widespread firebombing obsessed military planners. In 1944 US Air Force officers even consulted Canadian and British insurance adjusters who had… Read More »A Man-Made Disaster
Brief overview why Marxism is bad on its own and no implementation will work.
What is genocide? [Throughline] Prosecuting Genocide https://podcastaddict.com/throughline/episode/209635773 via @PodcastAddict
You can interpret any text in many ways. “What Paul probably intended as survival advice for a tiny persecuted minority became, once Christianity had power, a blanket authorization for state authority. The text didn’t change. The context did. And suddenly… Read More »From Galilee to Empire: The Institutional Capture of Christianity
You are what you consume. “you become what you worship. Give your attention and devotion to something blind, and you go blind. Trust in something deaf, and you lose the capacity to hear. Serve something that cannot feel, and you… Read More »The Battlefield of Attention
Religion always gets used for power purposes. “European colonialism didn’t invent religious capture, but it industrialized it.” https://tantaman.substack.com/p/the-alchemy-of-power