23:00 Just ban sorcery and witchcraft.
28:00 We obey God if He exists to avoid being sent to worse place in the afterlife.
32:00 The Koran is the final edition of divine revelation.
33:00 Aren't we agreed that God is absolutely powerful and perfectly moral? He has to be to be the Supreme Administrator of Heaven and Hell as well as the material universe!
34:00 We have to think God is perfectly moral or, as Mark says, we won't obey Him.
37:00 There is only one set of facts which corresponds to reality.
39:00 Do we know of matriarchies that are more rational and moral than patriarchies?
42:00 CLAIRE KHAW joins to discuss patriarchy and matriarchy.
45:00 Pater familias
47:00 Top and bottom in gay relationships
48:00 The return of patriarchy
49:00 Monogamy
50:00 Harems
52:00 The difference between a republic and monarchy
53:00 The Book of Samuel
Saul and David
56:00 The purpose of Christianity was to defend the divine right of kings.
57:00 Patriarchy is protected by religion and cannot exist without marriage.
58:00 Monogamy is more stable than polygamy.
1:00:00 The Koranic position on polygamy is tolerance.
1:02:00 Enforcing monogamy
Mormon Extermination Order
1:05:00 American Primeval
1:07:00 Labour relations
1:08:00 Bread and circuses
1:09:00 Mercenaries
Patricians
1:10:00 Julius Caesar
Brutus
1:11:00 Different periods of Rome
1:12:00 Islam
1:13:00 Romans started their city state as a people who hated kings and became a people who worshiped their deceased emperors.
1:15:00 Ben Franklin
The American and French Revolutions
1:16:00 The English Republic
1:17:00 The extermination of the Romanovs
1:18:00 Nicholas II was refused asylum by George V.
1:19:00 The Alliance System of Europe
1:20:00 The War of 1812
The Seven Years' War and the War of 1812 are indirectly linked through a continuous, century-long geopolitical rivalry between Great Britain and France, unfinished territorial conflicts involving Indigenous peoples, and the structural evolution of the British Empire in North America.Direct and Indirect ConnectionsThe Anglo-French Struggle: Both wars were extensions of global power struggles between Britain and France. The Seven Years' War established British dominance in North America, while the War of 1812 was a direct spillover of the Napoleonic Wars—Britain's final phase of that multi-decade existential conflict with France.Indigenous Land and Alliances: The outcome of the Seven Years' War pushed British authority and American colonists into the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions. This created a lasting friction over Indigenous lands that culminated in Tecumseh's Confederacy allying with the British to resist U.S. expansion during the War of 1812.Unresolved Border Pressures: Britain's retention of frontier posts and alliances with Native tribes after earlier treaties—roots tracing back to mid-18th-century imperial adjustments—fueled American war hawks' ambitions to capture Canada as a way to finalize national security.
1:23:00 Imperial wars
1:24:00 The decline of Spanish empire
The Thucydides Trap
1:25:00 After WW2
1:26:00 NATO
The Cold War was a huge opportunity for the military industrial complex to sell weapons to US vassal states.
1:27:00 George Washington: "An overgrown military establishment is inauspicious to republican liberty."
Every problem is a nail when all you have is a hammer.
1:28:00 Germanic dominance
1:29:00 Anglo Saxons and Saxons were Teutons.
1:30:00 The Berlin-Baghdad Railway
Discussion of the railway's role as a contributing factor to the outbreak of war is complicated by two issues:Firstly, historians and political analysts who wrote about this issue directly after the war were not in possession of closed diplomatic records, an important piece and perspective on the historical record. Diplomatic documents of the German government were released between 1922 and 1927, British documents between 1926 and 1938. Only some Russian documents were released, and Italian documents came out only after World War II.Marxist historians emphasise imperial rivalries and economics as the driving force for the war, as was popularly reported with respect to the railway at the time[33][page needed] and especially as revealed in the Russian diplomatic documents. Regardless of diplomacy, financing and agreements and later points of view, the existence of the railway would have created a threat to British dominance over German trade, as it would have given German industry access to oil and a port in the Persian Gulf. The importance of oil as opposed to coal as fuel was recognised, as it could greatly improve the performance and capacity of the rival navies. The recognised strategic importance is seen by the wartime presence of the British there and by the earlier establishment of the Sheikdom of Kuwait as an autonomous kaza (district) of the Ottoman Empire and a de facto protectorate of Great Britain by the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 to block northern access to the Persian Gulf.Other historians have argued that the sum of many other issues, including intractable nationalities and the denial of self-determination to minority groups, were the dominant causes of World War I. They argue that although the railway issue was heated before 1914 (Corrigan shows that the railway issue was driving Germany and the Ottomans apart), conservative Anglo-American historians argue that it was not a cause of World War I[35] since the main controversies had been addressed in principle before the war started.Some of the optimism should be attributed to the willingness of the German government to compose long-standing differences... and in June 1914 a settlement was achieved over the Baghdad railway.Many economic and colonial issues which had been causing friction between French, German and British governments before 1914, such as the financing of the Berlin-Baghdad railway and the future disposition of the Portuguese colonies, had been resolved by the summer of 1914.Eventually an agreement over the Baghdad railway issue was reached between Britain and the Ottoman Government in 1913 in the following terms: First, there should be no differential treatment on any railway in Asiatic Turkey; second, two British representatives approved by HMG should be admitted to the Board of the Baghdad Railway Company; third, the terminus of the railway should be at Basra; last, no railway should be constructed from Basra to the Gulf without the sanction of HMG, which speaks to the importance of the issue. This was followed by an Anglo-German agreement on the similar lines in London on 15 June 1914. However these agreements, reached just prior to the outbreak of the Great War, were not realised.However, war began on 1 August 1914 – and one day later the secret treaty establishing the Ottoman-German Alliance was signed, perhaps giving credence to the notion that the issue had not been fully resolved. In fact, restriction of German access to Mesopotamia and its oil, and strategic exclusion from rail access to the Persian Gulf, was enforced by British military presence during World War I, and afterwards in the Treaty of Versailles by removal of the would-be Baghdad railway from German ownership and the transfer to France of the German-held 25% stake in the Turkish Petroleum Company in the San Remo Oil Agreement of 1920. Thus the potential consequences to Anglo-German economic rivalry in oil and trade by the existence of the railway were ultimately addressed by ownership and outright control, rather than by agreement. Marxist historians, unpopular in the Anglo-American perspective on process, would suggest that economic contexts, rather than nationalistic and political rivalries, underlie the root causes.
1:32:00 Poland
1:35:00 Germany
1:36:00 A J P Taylor
1:37:00 Niall Ferguson
1:39:00 Weimar Republic
1:40:00 Kaiser
1:43:00 Victoria Empress of India
1:44:00 Divide and rule
1:45:00 Monarchy is idolatry.
1:46:00 Belgian and Russian imperialism
1:47:00 Monarchs are remembered better than Presidents.
1:49:00 The Fourth Political Theory
1:50:00 American Christianity
1:53:00 The Amish and Mennonites
1:55:00 Zionism
The Judeo-Christian heritage of the West
1:57:00 People's Democratic Dictatorship
1:58:00 Spirituality
The Culture War
1:59:00 Kulturkampf
Vatican I
2:00:00 Enforcing Christianity
2:01:00 Christian Amendment
2:02:00 Mamdani and El-Sayed
2:03:00 Token Muslims
2:06:00 What are American values?
2:10:00 Suez, Eisenhower and Netanyahu
2:11:00 Unwavering support of America
2:13:00 October 7 and 9/11
Is Israel a weapons testing ground?
2:19:00 Shipbuilding and drones
2:20:00 The liberal order
2:21:00 Taxes
2:23:00 Doubling down on liberalism
2:24:00 An anti-feminist political economy
2:26:00 Housing allowance
2:27:00 Ban usury
Nuclear families
2:28:00 Properly parented legitimate offspring
2:29:00 Monopolists
2:30:00 Tony Tiger Great
2:31:00 Ukraine, NATO and Poland
2:32:00 Which NATO country will Russia nuke to make a point?
2:34:00 The cost of killing and the economics of violence
2:35:00 Turkey
2:36:00 Lawrence of Arabia
2:37:00 Putin's in a pickle
2:38:00 US foreign policy
2:40:00 Lee Kuan Yew
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