Two early 19th Century punchbowls are now on display for a limited time in the Sydney Harbour Gallery at the Australian National Maritime Museum, offering a glimpse into the first European settlement. Made by unknown Chinese craftsmen, the hand-painted ‘Sydney punchbowls’ depict the scenes of the city dating from the Macquarie era (1810-1821). The bowls originated…
Chinese Porcelain Punchbowls Provide Peek Into Sydney History
November 2, 2022
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Six Hours: Surviving Typhoon Yolanda | Documentary
October 29, 2022
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Sent to the Filipino city of Tacloban to report on the strongest typhoon in recorded history, a newscaster and his crew could not prevent themselves from becoming part of the story when they were forced to walk for six hours through the storm’s aftermath. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it…
How Sound Money Won the Battle of Yorktown—and Saved the American Revolution
Early this month, U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) introduced the Gold Standard Restoration Act (H.R. 9157). If enacted into law, it would require public disclosure of the federal government’s gold holdings and eventually define the dollar as a weight of gold. For the moment, the bill’s chances of passage are as nil as nil gets. Sound money,…
The Iron Horse: The Yankees’s Lou Gehrig Was a Titan on the Field, Humble as a Man, and Beloved by Millions
Earle F. Zeigler, a founder of the North American Society of Sport Management, once wrote that “from antiquity we know that ‘hero’ was the name given to a man of ‘superhuman strength, courage, or ability, favoured by the gods; regarded later as demigod and immortal.’” He further defined a cultural hero as “a mythicized historical…
How Do We Carve a Rosetta Stone for Today?
Commentary Today’s tsunami of economic, social, technological, and geopolitical dislocation may be more than a temporary setback for humanity. It could lead to an erosion of the ability to access the fragile media we have used to record our lives. The loss of the mostly papyrus-based documents in the great fire at the Library of…
If Walls Could Talk: Touring James Madison’s Virginia Family Home at Montpelier
October 13, 2022
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives,” wrote President James Madison. For six months, the “Father of the Constitution” sequestered himself in his upstairs study in the family’s Virginia home, Montpelier. There, he engaged in an intensive study…
Landmark 2022 SCOTUS Session and Struggle for Personal Freedom in the US—With Joe Wolverton
October 4, 2022
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Constitutional legal scholar and attorney Joe Wolverton joins the podcast to discuss some of the landmark decisions of the 2022 Supreme Court session. But should these cases have been brought to the court in the first place? How many wrongs have to be righted before America returns to its rightful place as a federation of…
The Sound of the Enemy: How the US Navy’s Ocean Systems Technicians Tracked the Soviets
When Geoff Ugent was discharged from the U.S. Navy, he had to wait 27 years to talk about anything he did for the branch of the military. His former job title, ocean systems technician (OT), sounds more like he worked in oceanography or marine engineering than in one of the most select groups in naval…
Baltasar Gracián: Critic of an Oppressive Age
“Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.” Many variations of this simple advice exist today, but this formulation was originally the motto of a 17th-century Jesuit priest named Baltasar Gracián y Morales. Although not widely known outside of Spain, Gracián does occasionally transcend obscurity. Thirty years ago, Christopher Maurer’s translation of Gracián’s book “The Art of…
Phil Magness: When the Keepers of History Are Cowards
September 30, 2022
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Phil Magness recently wrote an article for the American Institute for Economic Research entitled “The Suicide of the American Historical Association.” We will be discussing the fallout from AHA President James Sweet’s apology for being honest about The 1619 Project and the issues of presenting. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access…
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