John Robson of TheRebel.media reflects on Missouri entering the union as a slave state and the impact this had on American history. MORE: https://www.therebel.media/today_in_history_choosing_missouri_over_principle_1821 Subscribe to the Rebel's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/RebelMediaTV PLUS http://www.Facebook.com/JoinTheRebel *** http://www.Twitter.com/TheRebelTV More from John Robson: https://thejohnrobson.com/
"Only through scrutiny of the past can society descry the limitations of human nature.”
Russel Kirk The Conservative Mind
In my latest Rebel piece I argue that sometimes, winning second-prize in a beauty contest is a pretty darn impressive feat.
I have a piece that appeared in Mercatornet about the movie Dunkirk and our responsibility as parents to teach our children history.
"The ruling class of the eighteenth century were coarse and corrupt, but they were capable and courageous. They made great blunders, they were blind and indifferent to great evils, but they weathered terrible storms."
Sir C.P. Ilbert Parliament
John Robson of TheRebel.media explains how the German army got its nickname "the Huns" during the Boxer rebellion. MORE: https://www.therebel.media/today_in_history_who_said_hun_1900 Subscribe to the Rebel's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/RebelMediaTV PLUS http://www.Facebook.com/JoinTheRebel *** http://www.Twitter.com/TheRebelTV More from John Robson: https://thejohnrobson.com/
"Our new prime minister recently apologized for the Irish famine. I didn’t know he had caused it. And since we know he didn’t, we can only conclude that he accepts the monstrously dangerous, stupid, and incidentally racist concept of inherited racial guilt. This is political correctness run barking mad."
George Macdonald Fraser in National Review January 26, 1998
In my latest National Post column I ask whether the purpose of "uniting the right" in Alberta was to implement conservative policies or to bury them.