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This article was originally published in American Greatness, October 13, 2021. To read Michael Vlahos' reply, click here:...

Americans, sadly, often know little of their own history. Yet it is far worse to lack historical imagination altogether. Hence trying,...

In a time and place where reality itself has nowhere to put down roots, how many of the “serious” words we use now have no definition?...

Have you heard the news? America’s elite (according to The Atlantic Monthly), the entrenched aristocracy of 9.9%, have created--like all...

As if a gathering literary trope in the Forever War, American commentators have come to ask: Are We Rome? You see, this nation has not...

A republic ensures the transfer of power through constitutional rules. How does an executive-ruled state transfer power? What is its...

The essence of empire is self-deception. Imperial metamorphosis imposes a prolonged cognitive dissonance in political consciousness: The...

[This short post is intended to set up a discussion series on the long-term consequences of a transition from an American republican...

On April 27, 1749, in Green Park, London, 12,000 Britons were party to an historic happening: A celebration of the peace of...

Three core questions — each existential and unanswerable — in the Church of Woke are these: Why is the New American Religion so invested...

Originally published at The American Conservative Thermidor was the 11th month of the French revolutionary calendar, falling between the...

Our American crisis can only be understood within the framework of a religious struggle. It is a war for ownership of the True Faith, and...

Michael Vlahos is interviewed by Around The Empire on his latest piece, "The Doom of the Elite: The Rise and Fall of Elites Shapes Our...

For those who worry over civil war, Spain hovers on the edge of memory: history’s blood-red incandescence now sold as essence of...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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