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  1. What was the most likely period for Islam for a reformation?

    This is some really basic level stuff, but I'll bother to break it down for you. Saying "humans are animals" is not offensive because it is a correct identification without content. However, the form you did it in was to posit a continuity between "man" and "beast" on which the Romans were low...

  2. What was the most likely period for Islam for a reformation?

    I've got to say having followed the early history of the Reformation, at least, while there was some flickering of priorities and factionalism, religion was very, very important to the wars and it was perceived as being very important to the wars. The Reformation certainly served the political...

  3. What was the most likely period for Islam for a reformation?

    It's weird to have to say this, but Islam doesn't "have" to do anything to stop fighting over its religious differences except come to the conclusion that they shouldn't. I'm not interested in recreating the European religious course in the Middle East, for one thing I think the fall of...

  4. What was the most likely period for Islam for a reformation?

    I just think you're trying to render the discontinuity between the Christian Theologians and the Greek Platonists/Aristotelians much larger than it is. Christianity asserted itself during its rise as a philosophy, not a cultic religion, as did then-contemporary Judaism. Christianity and...

  5. What was the most likely period for Islam for a reformation?

    Yeah, I don't think it is the case that the Vatican archive hasn't been fully explored and catalogued. They absolutely do care, the Vatican librarians are nerds. Unless you're saying, "The Church doesn't know every document in its possession" which does seem to be largely true, but mostly...

  6. The Right to Alter or Abolish: An Alternate Postbellum United States
    Threadmarks: The Greenback Party's Moment in the Sun

    The Greenback Party's Moment in the Sun Monopoly Capital in A Yeoman Republic The Long Depression, as it is customarily known, was nearly a fatal blow to the Republican Party. Even in the occupied states of the South, where Blaine and the Union army were expending substantial political capital...

  7. The Right to Alter or Abolish: An Alternate Postbellum United States
    Threadmarks: Blaine's Solution To The Nation's Troubles

    Blaine’s Solutions To the Nation’s Troubles Excerpt from American Dominion: The United States in the Western Hemisphere Blaine was a convicted Republican, rightfully furious at the illegitimate coup attempts by southern redeemers and concerned with the welfare of freedmen in the South. But he...

  8. The Right to Alter or Abolish: An Alternate Postbellum United States
    Threadmarks: The Unpopular Election of James G. Blaine

    The Unpopular Election of James G. Blaine Excerpt from As The Flower of the Grass: The Post-Bellum James G. Blaine was a talented politician and his nomination to the Presidency of the United States was a foregone conclusion when he arrived to the convention.[1] The Republican Party had...

  9. AHC: Make Prohibition Work

    If the Democrats were the drys and the Republican the wets, it seems likely to me that Prohibition would have survived to the present day. Modern Indian prohibitions are functionally washes in crime terms and the historical American one’s effects on crime are debated in the literature. The...

  10. The Ruins of an American Party System, Part Three: Revolution

    This was really great. I enjoyed it a lot, it credibly sold most of the events in the story.

  11. Why is Roman Catholicism dying in Spain while its still alive in former colonies esp in Latin Americ

    1) Constantinianism. When the Church is associated with the state, it will inevitably become a prop of some bad actor. This will ruin its popularity. 2) Cosmopolitanism. Diverse experiences tend to rub against exclusivist religions. It also increases openness to foreign ideas, increasing...

  12. No Southern Strategy: The Political Ramifications of an Alternate 1964 Election

    Has there been a major economic collapse in the US yet? I'm drawing a blank, but thirty years without a recession feels like a bit much.

  13. No Southern Strategy: The Political Ramifications of an Alternate 1964 Election

    So I finished reading this. Firstly, all super interesting. Secondly, looks like I'm still a Democrat.

  14. AHC: Socially Liberal US, Socially Conservative Canada

    No. The United States is substantially more rural and Canada substantially more urban, there's just no way to make the US more liberal socially than Canada. If you go far enough back and push hard enough, you could make the US substantially more economically liberal and substantially less...

  15. Early Islam: what scenario do you believe?

    I'd contend that Muhammed led a monotheistic revival movement that initially co-opted Christians and Jews, along with the monotheistic-trending positions of the formerly polytheistic arabs. Then, over the course of time, the revival movement hardened into its own, separate sect, driven by both...

  16. Early Islam: what scenario do you believe?

    Sure. That could be the reading. But which is simpler: 1.) There was once a man named Muhammed who led a religious and military revival in the Arabian peninsula 2.) There was once a propagandistic act to protect the legitimacy of an empire that invented Muhammed a hundred years after his...

  17. Early Islam: what scenario do you believe?

    Saying Muhammed didn't exist is less credible than saying that Plato and Socrates didn't exist. There's no basis for it whatsoever. It's a conspiracy theory of the highest order. Is this really up for debate? Proofs: 1. The Quran is written near his own time and attributed to him. 2. The...

  18. WI: Slavery in the Western Territory Outlawed?

    I kind of thought the same thing. Would it put a dent in the slave coalition, do you think? Or would the slave coalition simply adapt and overcome?

  19. WI: Slavery in the Western Territory Outlawed?

    So, according to Wikipedia: What would happen if this ordinance were passed? Would it have a long-term impact?

  20. AH Title and Description Game

    Richard Nixon is shot and killed during the 1972 election. Hurled into turmoil after an assassination, the United States elects his successor Gerald Ford in his place. Gerald Ford, unmarred by any public embarrassments and inheriting the legacy of Nixon, manages to pursue an incredibly...
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