You think it started in Kabul. Pull up a log. In 468 Rome lost half its fleet to boats with nobody aboard, and the empire had eight years of life left in it.
The Fall of Rome Began at Cape Bon. America’s Began in the Strait of Hormuz.
Canada at the Crossroads: A Nation With Every Advantage, Squandering Most of Them
Canada has every advantage a nation could ask for — and has been quietly squandering most of them. The math is unforgiving, Norway is watching, and seventy per cent of our best builders already left. But pressure has a way of clarifying what comfort obscures. The rewrite starts now. Hold the pen.
The Spectrum of the Human Soul: A Meditation on Good and Evil in History
History reveals no purely good or evil humans—only flawed beings capable of both light and darkness. From Gandhi's racism to Hitler's childhood abuse, the spectrum of morality challenges our assumptions. Our choice: recognize shared humanity and love our neighbors, or risk repeating history's darkest chapters through dehumanization and cruelty.
Why Russia Had Everything and Built Almost Nothing in Four Centuries
Russia had everything—resources, education, strategic power. Yet its GDP per capita is one-sixth of America's. Four centuries of autocracy taught Russians nothing but control, corruption, and hardship. When you've never known trust-based institutions, you can't imagine building them. Seventy years of choices compound. Some nations built prosperity. Russia chose nothing.
Notes Beyond the Map 