If America was a movie, the lights would come on after our victory in World War II, or perhaps after we won the Cold War in 1991. But real life does not stop, and the American people must decide how we shall live in the time after the end credits.

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xkcd – Tradition: https://xkcd.com/988/

Brian Niemeier – Ground Zero: https://brianniemeier.com/2018/01/ground-zero/

Raheem Kassam: https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1470094452488384515?s=20

Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong, but both the Marxist left and establishment right have spent the last year attacking him. Yet it is not just Kyle that is under attack, but you and me, our right to self defense, the ideal of masculine virtue, and the very fabric of Western Civilization.

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Allie Beth Stuckey interviews Elijah Schaffer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-kdb6hc_6I

MartyrMade’s Podcast: https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/the-kyle-rittenhouse-trial

Patrick Buchanan’s piece: https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/kyle-rittenhouse–both-right-and-righteous/

At long last, here is the fourth of five eventual re-recordings I plan to do. Episode 4 was the worst of the early episodes, as I used my low-quality laptop microphone to record, and I did not prepare a script but instead spoke off the cuff based on a sparse outline. For this recording I transcribed the episode and then rewrote it to be more concise and coherent, with tremendously superior audio quality.

A study of history can give us an idea of how things will play out over the next few decades, but modern society completely fails to teach history to young people. This has led to an ignorant population that believes whatever they are told, and is unprepared for what is to come.

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This episode has been a long time coming. I have had a draft waiting for more than two years, but the events in Kabul this month convinced me that now was the time to talk about America’s forever wars.

Our loss in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 marks the end of the longest military engagement in American history. What did we gain in the mountains of the Hindu Kush? Why did we think we could succeed where Britain and Russia both failed spectacularly? Why do our leaders insist on indefinite military deployments throughout the entire world?

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Errata:

In the podcast I mention a British “tactical defeat” in the Third Anglo-Afghan War. This is in error; the British won the war. However, they nevertheless withdrew from Afghanistan afterward. The humiliating and surprising defeat came in the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1842.

I mention that the monarchy falls to a Communist coup in 1978. This is also in error. A military coup overthrew the monarchy in 1973, which was itself overthrown in 1978.

The famous picture of a helicopter evacuating people from a roof in Saigon was from a CIA safe house in the city, not the US embassy.

H.R. McMaster was President Trump’s National Security Advisor, not Secretary of Homeland Security.

Finally, the most unforgivable error is that Dan McKnight of bringourtroopshome.us is a Marine Corps veteran, not Army.

As protests erupt this month in Cuba, many Americans are wondering how we should respond. Should we intervene, oust the Communists, and restore democratic rule? Or should we leave them alone? How should the America First movement deal with Communist Cuba?

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Nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, the Founding Fathers of the United States created a Constitution to protect the hard-won freedoms for themselves and their posterity. Today, that posterity finds themselves being pushed out of the country their forefathers bequeathed to them. What can we do to reclaim and protect our homeland?

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Christopher Caldwell: There Goes Robert E. Lee

I will have a new episode up soon, but in the meantime here is a short note to thank you for listening, and to give you information on how to contact me, or to converse with other fans of the podcast.

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America is supposed to be a republic, ruled by the people. But our elected leaders and cultural elites look for ways to push us toward the choices they think best. How can we reclaim our sovereignty in this totalitarian age?

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Jeremy R. Hammond: Oregon Medical Board Suspends Dr. Paul Thomas for Practicing Informed Consent

Not only do would-be dictators take advantage of social crises; they often create the very problems that their dictatorships aim to solve. The Democratic Party is using crisis after crisis to increase their power, but things are about to spiral out of control.

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The American Mind podcast featuring Michael Anton and Curtis Yarvin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8lNtIN7Us

Sovereign Nations podcast featuring Michael O’Fallon and James Linday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yh-J2ABC3c

More than any other foreign nation, the relationship of the United States to Israel dominates our foreign policy discourse. Should American patriots support the nation of Israel?

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Everything in our culture is geared toward short-term thinking, but that is exactly the perspective that leads to decline. How can we fight the current and adopt a long-term view of society?

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