Feeling overwhelmed isn’t a personal flaw; it’s often the predictable outcome of how we’ve redesigned childhood and campus life. We trace the surge in teen anxiety and sadness to safetyism—the belief that emotional safety should trump all other...

A secret code to the Hall of Justice, only the hall is the Ohio State facility and the heroes wear scarlet and gray—that’s the childhood doorway that sets this story in motion. We unpack Kirk Herbstreit’s memoir to explore how a life steeped in...

When the numbers are this strong—near four percent growth across three straight quarters, inflation easing, wages outpacing prices—it’s tempting for Washington to claim credit and start tinkering. We make a different case: the smartest move is ...

Your reading list shouldn’t be a source of guilt. It should be a lever for real change. We explore how to stop juggling half‑finished titles and start using one book to solve concrete problems in your work and life. Guided by Gary Keller and Ja...

A coach you could count on. That’s the rarest currency in a league built on chaos, and it’s exactly what Mike Tomlin delivered for nineteen seasons in Pittsburgh. We break down how standards, not slogans, powered a run with no losing years, a l...

The cubicle jokes were the hook, but the accuracy was the engine. We look at Scott Adams’ life and ideas with fresh eyes—how Dilbert named the dysfunction so many of us felt, how The Dilbert Principle exposed bad incentives, and why his most la...

Tyranny spreads by force, and so must the resolve to stop it. We take a clear-eyed look at what comes after a dictator falls in Caracas and argue for a blueprint that restores Venezuelan sovereignty without sliding into a quagmire. Our approach...

A nighttime city goes dark, rotors whisper over rooftops, and a regime built on crime loses its center of gravity. That image anchors a frank, fast-moving breakdown of Operation Absolute Resolve—the surgical extraction that removed Nicolás Madu...

Ready to swap doomscrolling for thinking that actually changes your mind? David closes out the year with a 34-book reading journey and the five standout titles that forged a stronger, more coherent worldview—spanning Civil War history, economic...

A nation doesn’t survive on slogans; it survives on choices made when every option looks bad. We step into December 1776, when Washington’s army bled across New Jersey, Congress fled, and the British believed the rebellion would expire by New Y...

Merry Christmas Everyone!This episode is our traditional replaying began in 2021 of the Dominican tradition of reading the Nativity proclamation, exploring its deep historical roots and emotional significance during Christmas. We...

The candles are burning low, Advent is nearly complete, and a quiet figure steps into focus: Saint Joseph. We open the door to the workshop where silence is eloquent and obedience changes history, exploring how a man with no recorded words stil...

One audacious night on the Mississippi may have decided the Civil War. We dive into the capture of New Orleans in 1862 and show how Farragut’s risky run past Forts Jackson and St. Philip didn’t just seize a city—it fractured the Confederacy’s m...

Your brain doesn’t need more highlighter ink; it needs a knot that keeps memories from slipping. We unpack the testing effect—why retrieval practice beats rereading—and show how spacing transforms effortful recall into durable knowledge you can...

If studying feels smooth, you might be doing it wrong. We dig into the science behind durable learning and show why the methods that feel effortful—retrieval, spacing, and interleaving—produce knowledge that holds up under pressure. Drawing on ...

What if the closest brush with nuclear war didn’t happen in 1962, but in the 1980s—and what if a prayerful act in Rome influenced events that rewired the calculus of the Cold War? We follow that thread from a field in Portugal to a tense global...

A funeral that halted a Southern town sets the stage for one of the most misunderstood lives in American history. We follow James Longstreet from West Point camaraderie with Ulysses S. Grant to the smoke-choked battlefield  of Gettysburg, ...

A ballot can be as fragile as a night’s sleep when terror rules the streets. We dig into the hard edge of Reconstruction and follow Ulysses S. Grant as he turns constitutional promises into enforceable rights, taking on the Ku Klux Klan with la...

A battlefield victory does not guarantee control of the story. We trace how the Confederacy lost the war but captured American memory through textbooks, monuments, and movies, turning slavery into “states’ rights,” treason into tragic romance, ...

Headlines can heat the blood; evidence steadies the mind. We step back from election drama to explore Thomas Sowell’s lifetime of clear thinking on prices, incentives, culture, and the hard truth that there are no solutions—only trade-offs. Fro...

New York just elected a 34-year-old democratic socialist as mayor, and the city’s political ground shifted underfoot. We unpack the upset—how small donors, social media savvy, and an affordability-first platform overcame long odds—and then stre...

New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soa...

Debates over “Christian nationalism” are loud, confusing, and often heated. We cut through the noise by defining the term, tracing its historical footprints, and then asking a better question: what kind of political love do Christians owe their...

Gaslight flickers over polished wood, a packed hall hums with dread and ambition, and a single voice promises safety through rupture. We take you inside Charleston’s Hibernian Hall in 1859, where Robert Barnwell Rhett—“the father of secession”—...

The temperature of American politics keeps rising, and the comparisons to the 1850s are getting louder. We step into the heat with a focused debate: do today’s progressive radicals echo the antebellum fire eaters in their tactics, or is that a ...