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April 26, 2017

The Cost of Desegregation

We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a

August 3, 2020

Editor’s Note: Last Redoubt comes back after a couple of weeks without posting. It’s been a while, and I’ve accumulated a few odds and ends that don’t call for a full post. Hate is bad. So we are told. Of

December 16, 2019

Decline And Fall Of The United States

September 11, 2017

Alt-West (Hard Right) Manifesto

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Alfred the Great – Part 2

September 12, 2017

Editor’s Note: This is the second chapter of Alfred the Great, by Jacob Abbot (published 1872) (Continued from Part 1) II. The Anglo-Saxons Anyone who will look around upon the families of

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Alfred the Great – Part 1

September 9, 2017

Editor’s Note: This is the first chapter of Alfred the Great, by Jacob Abbot (published 1872) I. The Britons Alfred the Great figures in history as the founder, in some sense, of

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Video: How Should We Then Live – Part 7

September 8, 2017

Editor’s Note: We have been using the same youtube source for the prior videos in this series, but part 7 is missing. We found this version, listed as part 7 in another

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The Seventieth Week of Daniel – Part 3

September 6, 2017

Read Part One Here. Read Part Two Here. The Seventieth Week Daniel 9:27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week

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The Seventy Weeks of Daniel – Part 2

September 5, 2017

Read Part One Here. The Seven Weeks, and the Sixty and Two Weeks In verse 25 a continuous stretch of 69 of the 70 sevens of years is marked off, amounting to

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Grand Ferré

September 5, 2017

Editor’s Note: The following account is taken from Historical Tales, by Charles Morris (published 1896). It was in the heart of the Hundred Years’ War. Everywhere France lay desolate under the feet

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The Seventy Weeks of Daniel – Part 1

September 4, 2017

Rabbinic Perspective: All of the commentators, especially Ibn Ezra, interpret the expression to mean 490 years: seventy weeks of years. The Sages hold that these 490 years commenced with the destruction of the First

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Man of the West: William Tell

September 4, 2017

Editor’s Note: The following account is taken from Historical Tales, by Charles Morris (published 1896). “In the year of our Lord 1307,” writes an ancient chronicler, “there dwelt a pious countryman in

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"Michelangelo" by John Lord

September 2, 2017

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Beacon Lights of History, by John Lord (published 1902) Michelangelo Buonarroti – one of the Great Lights of the new civilization – may stand as