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One of the strongest tailwinds Reagan got upon entering office was the release of the Embassy hostages in Iran on the day of his inauguration. At a stroke, the Iranian regime removed the most blatant source of negativity (among many) that hobbled the late Carter administration, and freed up...

Quick and dirty - could the German Wehrmacht have overrun the BEF and prevented any large-scale evacuation across the Channel? If so, would Britain sue for peace, and if not, could she fight on? Would the diversion of forces and the glut of prisoners affect the front against the French...

I've lately been reading Graves' I, Claudius books, where the first few chapters of the second book are dominated by an account of the career of Herod Agrippa, which Graves interweaves with the story of early Christianity (the origin of the good Samaritan parable, the eventual suicide of Pontius...

“It’s the language of scholars and educated people,” said Jason Griffiths, headmaster of Brooklyn Latin. “It’s the language of people who are successful. I think it’s a draw, and that’s certainly what we sell.” NYTimes, Oct 7th, 2008

- Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic The above quote crystallized a thought I'd been having after watching the series Rome: what if the indentured servitude system in colonial America (where white convicts or debtors worked without pay for white masters, although their status wasn't heritable)...

Seems to me that Europe's political, economic and defense structures are needlessly overcomplicated by the fact that they are embodied in different institutions - The EU/Common Market and NATO, respectively. With a POD during or immediately post-World War II (perhaps motivated by an even scarier...

What if, instead of writing the Divine Comedy in exile, Dante successfully rallied his faction of the Guelphs and recaptured Florence? He was big for the power of the Holy Roman Emperor in Italy, and I can think of all sorts of potential butterflies for the Papacy, the HRE, the Crusades, and...