Vlahos Blog

Michael Vlahos

Apr 7
8 min

The Doom Of The Elite

The rise and fall of elites shapes our history and can be predicted.

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There Will Be Blood: Beware the Ides of March!

Michael Vlahos

Mar 16
5 min

There Will Be Blood: Beware the Ides of March!

His immortal cry of betrayal echoes today from 2065 years ago: "And you, too, Brutus!" The long knives that felled Caesar finally...

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Michael Vlahos

Mar 8
4 min

RV Nomads Today, Red Guard Tomorrow

It is exactly when disparate groups share an oppressor and feel truly threatened, that they mobilize. This is when real insurgency begins.

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Michael Vlahos

Mar 2
6 min

Our Civil War Moves to a New Stage

In military strategy it is important not to confuse silence with stability. Below the surface, new and very unstable dynamics may be brewing

1,184 views

Michael Vlahos

Feb 16
6 min

Show Trial: Bellows of Civil War

Show trials are convened as a form of religious ceremony to secure the sacred symbols of power and legitimacy in politics.

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Civil War Histories’ Direct Message to Us

Michael Vlahos

Feb 6
9 min

Civil War Histories’ Direct Message to Us

Last week’s post — Civil War History Shows Us What We Don’t Want to Know — described a topology: Can many different civil wars through...

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Michael Vlahos

Jan 28
6 min

Civil War History Shows Us What We Don’t Want to Know

History dangles so many internecine conflicts in front of us, yet each is different... How can we tell what is relevant to us today?

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“America: Imagined Community, Imagined Kinship”

Michael Vlahos

Jan 20
1 min

“America: Imagined Community, Imagined Kinship”

Kinship drives culture, and imagined kinship is the foundation of national community. Why imagined? “It is imagined because the members...

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Civil War: Death Match between Continuity and Change

Michael Vlahos

Jan 7
4 min

Civil War: Death Match between Continuity and Change

That compressed tension between continuity and change is the mainspring of History. Societies characteristically work to balance...

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Michael Vlahos

Dec 22, 2020
4 min

Civil War Has Yet to Go Critical

We are “skirmishing our way to civil war.” A house divided may not stand. Yet it may still go down a winding, rocky road before the fall.

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Our Way Ahead: Insurgency, Revolution, and Civil War

Michael Vlahos

Dec 2, 2020
5 min

Our Way Ahead: Insurgency, Revolution, and Civil War

Societies sinking into an era of civil strife will experience different and sometimes very distinct conflict phases and dynamics.

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Heresy and Hate: Why Woke Needs “Truth and Reconciliation”

Michael Vlahos

Nov 18, 2020
6 min

Heresy and Hate: Why Woke Needs “Truth and Reconciliation”

Where Church claims State, however, heresy quickly rises to first choice. No longer must the non-believer be persuaded — he can be compelled

1,242 views

Liberty to Therapy: Don’t Worry Over Civil War, Worry over the Transformation of American Life

Michael Vlahos

Nov 10, 2020
5 min

Liberty to Therapy: Don’t Worry Over Civil War, Worry over the Transformation of American Life

The still-yet-to-be-legally-proclaimed President Elect, while claiming the title of “moderate,” has also promised "Transformation."

1,030 views

The Impending Election. Third Question: Can We Fight a Decades’ Long Slide Into Empire?

Michael Vlahos

Nov 3, 2020
4 min

The Impending Election. Third Question: Can We Fight a Decades’ Long Slide Into Empire?

American is transforming from a republic into an empire. Talking about civil war is so urgent now because there is still enough of the...

1,104 views

The Impending Election. Second Question: Does A Cynical Ruling Class Always Win?

Michael Vlahos

Nov 2, 2020
3 min

The Impending Election. Second Question: Does A Cynical Ruling Class Always Win?

This is a path, which I would expect in the wake of a Biden victory, that would potentially push Red into very active rebellion.

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Three Questions to Consider In the Impending Election. First Question: Are We Rome?

Michael Vlahos

Oct 31, 2020
3 min

Three Questions to Consider In the Impending Election. First Question: Are We Rome?

The question we have been pursuing: Are we now in civil war? 2,000 years ago the Romans invented it, then spent the next century reflecting.

3,072 views

Some Informal Fieldwork on Trump Derangement Syndrome

Michael Vlahos

Oct 18, 2020
4 min

Some Informal Fieldwork on Trump Derangement Syndrome

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) should in fact be spelled-out with capital letters, as a clinical diagnosis, on medical merits...

304 views

Our Hysterical Blindness Will Be Our Epitaph

Michael Vlahos

Oct 5, 2020
4 min

Our Hysterical Blindness Will Be Our Epitaph

Hence the really interesting question is not about civil war at all. It is about why, on its very cusp, we still cannot have an informed con

459 views

Michael Vlahos

Oct 1, 2020
4 min

The Stahlhelm Under the Stairs

the anger and rancor in the country — and the stress it puts on the nation as a whole — is arguably at late-Weimar levels.

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Announcing a new paper — Church of Woke: Next American Religion?

Michael Vlahos

Sep 24, 2020
2 min

Announcing a new paper — Church of Woke: Next American Religion?

The heart of crisis in history lies in collective shifts in consciousness. Physical dynamics act as triggers, but big change in history...

372 views

Has the Court Too Been Sucked Into Civil War? (Et Tu Tribunus?)

Michael Vlahos

Sep 21, 2020
3 min

Has the Court Too Been Sucked Into Civil War? (Et Tu Tribunus?)

The pacifier of strife has now become the agitator of strife.

204 views

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