Islam came close to destroying the Christian West in the half-century following the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Christendom was imploding. A century after 1453, Europe was well launched on its project of sudduing the rest of the world, a project that lasted 400 years. Then it… https://t.co/nBx8qnbi8A
— eburke (@JamesWHankins1) July 11, 2026
David is being kind of jokey, but I think you could describe the current left wing project as trying to create "working class" consciousness around A when the biggest cleavage in American politics is actually D. https://t.co/6TVPhdBkj3
— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) July 10, 2026
Reconstitution à grande échelle de lansquenets, présentée au Frundsbergfest 2026 à Mindelheim (Allemagne). https://t.co/zu2EKr9465 pic.twitter.com/7VVNSDfJXE
— Histoire & Odyssée (@HistoireOdyssee) July 11, 2026
Quando sei in vacanza fuori dall'UE 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Hl9IFLXscF
— Chance🤺 🍊 (@ChanceGardi) July 10, 2026
Latitude decided what you could grow: Vegetation and climate zones, 1895 pic.twitter.com/rOvRTe6VZE
— Vintage Maps (@vintagemapstore) July 11, 2026
Alexis de Tocqueville – Redeeming the French:)
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) July 11, 2026
The Frenchman who understood America better than most Americans, and Europe better than it has ever understood itself.
1. In 1831, a young French aristocrat sails to America ostensibly to study the prison system. What he actually… https://t.co/detxO8Ke93 pic.twitter.com/j9uzD7ysr2
The thing that's not even mentioned in wealth tax discussions in Europe, but very much in the US:
— James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@mr_james_c) July 10, 2026
Wealth taxes are a mechanism of state seizure of property.
Income tax is a transaction tax, so is VAT, so is CGT. They're taxes levied on a movement of money.
But a wealth tax…
Some gates deserve to take centre stage, beckoning you in to the woodland beyond. This morning was so quiet, so still, the lane deserted. All of nature seemed to be holding its breath, just waiting for the sun to rise and flicker its way through the trees, to sweep away the mist… pic.twitter.com/JNtVLOSQuY
— peaklass (@peaklass1) July 12, 2026
"Old age is complete – it is complete debility: it possesses everything, but everything is deficient."
— Armand D'Angour (@ArmandDAngour) July 12, 2026
--Democritus of Abdera https://t.co/ipk0WPWXX1
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