Victor Davis HansonNov 6, 20214 minIs America Becoming Rome Versus Byzantium?This article was originally published in American Greatness, October 13, 2021. To read Michael Vlahos' reply, click here:...
Michael VlahosNov 1, 20216 minIn the Footsteps of Rome... to the Bitter EndAmericans, sadly, often know little of their own history. Yet it is far worse to lack historical imagination altogether. Hence trying,...
Michael VlahosOct 22, 20218 minElites “By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet”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?...
Michael VlahosSep 30, 20215 minA Ruling Caste on the Edge of Forever?Have you heard the news? America’s elite (according to The Atlantic Monthly), the entrenched aristocracy of 9.9%, have created--like all...
Michael VlahosSep 11, 20215 minAre We Rome?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...
Michael VlahosAug 23, 20213 minImperial Succession as Imperial DamnationA republic ensures the transfer of power through constitutional rules. How does an executive-ruled state transfer power? What is its...
Michael VlahosAug 21, 20214 minEmpire — Eternal Suspension of Disbelief The essence of empire is self-deception. Imperial metamorphosis imposes a prolonged cognitive dissonance in political consciousness: The...
Michael VlahosJul 30, 20214 minWhat Does Transitioning From Republic to Empire Tell Us About America's Future?[This short post is intended to set up a discussion series on the long-term consequences of a transition from an American republican...
Michael VlahosJul 11, 20217 minCan Fireworks Make Defeat Sweet?The Art of Selling VictoryOn April 27, 1749, in Green Park, London, 12,000 Britons were party to an historic happening: A celebration of the peace of...
Michael VlahosJun 18, 20214 minAgainst the Prospect of Thermidorian Relief: A Less-hopeful counterpointThree core questions — each existential and unanswerable — in the Church of Woke are these: Why is the New American Religion so invested...
Michael VlahosJun 9, 20215 minWill A Woke Cicada Spring Make Way For Thermidorian Relief?— A hopeful point —Originally published at The American Conservative Thermidor was the 11th month of the French revolutionary calendar, falling between the...
Michael VlahosMay 10, 20214 minThe Church of Woke: Heresy or Sect? The distinction will decide our futureOur 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 VlahosApr 30, 20211 minThe Doom of the Elite feat Michael VlahosMichael Vlahos is interviewed by Around The Empire on his latest piece, "The Doom of the Elite: The Rise and Fall of Elites Shapes Our...
Michael VlahosApr 21, 20214 minOld Civil Wars Never Die: Like Zombies They Are Raised By History to Devour UsFor those who worry over civil war, Spain hovers on the edge of memory: history’s blood-red incandescence now sold as essence of...
Michael VlahosApr 7, 20218 minThe Doom Of The EliteThe rise and fall of elites shapes our history and can be predicted.
Michael VlahosMar 16, 20215 minThere 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...
Michael VlahosMar 8, 20214 minRV Nomads Today, Red Guard TomorrowIt is exactly when disparate groups share an oppressor and feel truly threatened, that they mobilize. This is when real insurgency begins.
Michael VlahosMar 2, 20216 minOur Civil War Moves to a New StageIn military strategy it is important not to confuse silence with stability. Below the surface, new and very unstable dynamics may be brewing
Michael VlahosFeb 16, 20216 minShow Trial: Bellows of Civil WarShow trials are convened as a form of religious ceremony to secure the sacred symbols of power and legitimacy in politics.
Michael VlahosFeb 6, 20219 minCivil War Histories’ Direct Message to UsLast week’s post — Civil War History Shows Us What We Don’t Want to Know — described a topology: Can many different civil wars through...
Michael VlahosJan 28, 20216 minCivil War History Shows Us What We Don’t Want to KnowHistory dangles so many internecine conflicts in front of us, yet each is different... How can we tell what is relevant to us today?
Michael VlahosJan 20, 20211 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...
Michael VlahosJan 7, 20214 minCivil War: Death Match between Continuity and ChangeThat compressed tension between continuity and change is the mainspring of History. Societies characteristically work to balance...
Michael VlahosDec 22, 20204 minCivil War Has Yet to Go CriticalWe 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.
Michael VlahosDec 2, 20205 minOur Way Ahead: Insurgency, Revolution, and Civil WarSocieties sinking into an era of civil strife will experience different and sometimes very distinct conflict phases and dynamics.
Michael VlahosNov 18, 20206 minHeresy 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
Michael VlahosNov 10, 20205 minLiberty to Therapy: Don’t Worry Over Civil War, Worry over the Transformation of American LifeThe still-yet-to-be-legally-proclaimed President Elect, while claiming the title of “moderate,” has also promised "Transformation."
Michael VlahosNov 3, 20204 minThe 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...
Michael VlahosNov 2, 20203 minThe 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.
Michael VlahosOct 31, 20203 minThree 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.
Michael VlahosOct 18, 20204 minSome Informal Fieldwork on Trump Derangement SyndromeTrump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) should in fact be spelled-out with capital letters, as a clinical diagnosis, on medical merits...
Michael VlahosOct 5, 20204 minOur 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
Michael VlahosOct 1, 20204 minThe Stahlhelm Under the Stairsthe anger and rancor in the country — and the stress it puts on the nation as a whole — is arguably at late-Weimar levels.
Michael VlahosSep 24, 20202 minAnnouncing 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...
Michael VlahosSep 21, 20203 minHas the Court Too Been Sucked Into Civil War? (Et Tu Tribunus?)The pacifier of strife has now become the agitator of strife.