Phew, it’s sure been a year, hasn’t it? I know it’s been quite a while since I’ve published but the protests and unrest lately in the wake of the George Floyd murder reminded me of a helpful essay from none other than Murray Rothbard, the “patron saint” of modern libertarianism. Many people have avoided the
While listening to a recent episode of the “Makers and Mystics” podcast (one of my new favorites, actually; I’ll link it here), I was introduced to the work of Japanese artist Makoto Fujimura. Since my teenage years, like many of my generation, I have been enamored with certain affectations of Japanese culture. From the interactive
In part 1 of this two-part series, we looked at whether the Korean War was necessary at all, whether South Korea was a bastion of freedom needing protecting, and whether the North Korea was aggressive in its invasion and solely to blame for hostilities. In part 2, we will look at the effects of the
American wars have a story and a legacy in popular culture. That legacy tends to color the way that we view the history and nature of those conflicts and those involved with and surrounding them. As America’s first major conflict after World War II in the fight against Communism, the Korean War is often used
After quite a bit of background review around the events of the Six Day War, we are at last able to look at the six days themselves and the nature of the conflict as they unfolded. In previous posts, we looked at just how relations with Israel’s surrounding neighbors, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, deteriorated to
We’re still moving along in our series on the Six Day War, arriving closer and closer along the timeline of events to the actual outbreak of the war. In previous installments, we looked at just how relations between Israel and the various actors in the region, from Egypt to Syria to Jordan, degraded to the
In the first three parts of our series, we took a look at the events leading up to the Six Day War in each of the major countries surrounding Israel, that of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Each of these nations experienced a great deal of change following the World Wars and the sweeping Arab Nationalism
As we have seen in our previous two installments in this series, the build-up to the Six Day War was a slow and steady one, proceeding from a state of relative calm after the armistice agreements of 1948 and 1949, to one of eventual brinkmanship and hair-trigger sensitivity. In Egypt and Syria, Arab nationalism not
In part one of our series on understanding the Six Day War, we reviewed many of the pre-conditions and formative events that helped to catalyze the situation that Israel and its surrounding Arab neighbors found themselves in during June of 1967. In that article, we briefly reviewed the phenomena of Arab nationalism that began to