A recent national poll showed that 7 out of 10 Americans feel this country is in decline.

The late, great William F. Buckley famously quipped: I’d rather be governed by 50 people randomly selected from the Boston phone book than 50 of the Yale faculty. Translation: no matter how pedigreed you may be, if...

Declining civilizations will always face superior firepower from ascending civilizations because sovereignty is only temporarily uncontested.

When a civilization accepts the propaganda of its enemy as truth, it has reached the far side of appeasement and capitulation is nigh.

Debasing the currency always destabilizes the governing authority.

With the loss of fiscal solvency comes a loss of sovereignty.

To hold territory, a state must be populated by those loyal to the central authority. When immigration overwhelms assimilation, the fall is predicted.

When a free people, through taxation, is deprived of its ability to acquire wealth and property, collapse is presaged.

If a people cannot avoid continuous internal warfare, they will have a new order imposed from without.

Appeasement of a ruthless outside power always invites aggression. Treaties made with ruthless despots are always fruitless and dangerous.

In battle, free men almost always defeat slaves. (Herodotus’ Law)

No nation has ever survived once its citizenry ceased to believe its culture worth saving. (Hanson’s Law)

One of the lesser understood phenomenon of history is that small ruthless bands of thugs will inevitably take over vastly larger docile civilizations, the operative words being ruthless and civilized. The civilized...

(An excerpt) ...During the winter of AD 408-409, (the barbarian chieftain) Alaric, and his invading barbarian army once again moved north into the Italian peninsula. The army swarmed and pillaged its way south until...

In my forthcoming book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I note that no people untouched by the ancient Greeks ever came up with the notion that the many should rule the few. Based on our founding, we are the...