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TikTok tells us that the boys are thinking an awful lot about Rome. But we grownups of the Ricochet Podcast want to hear about the Spartans, so we’re joined by Hillsdale College’s Paul Rahe to learn about proxy war, ancient and modern. He helps Peter, James and Rob connect the dots between Sparta’s success in bleeding the Athenians in Sicily to the machinations of the global superpowers in the 20th Century on to today. Listen in to understand how a foreign policy that fails to take Thucydides into account is doomed. (Be sure to preorder your copy of Dr. Rahe’s Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta.)
Also, catch some good ole fashioned rants about the latest state of emergency on our border; and find out which Monty Python star James got to gab with in London.
- This week’s opening audio: Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R – NJ02) blasts border policy in Judiciary Committee hearing
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I think the odds are better than not Biden will have allowed 10+ million illegal immigrants in his first term. Elections have consequences–both the primary and general!
Trump did not build a wall, but he did get Mexico turn off the flow of migrants. Credit where it is due.
I guess that might be a surprise to people who don’t have access to the Member Feed.
We’d love it if everyone who listened to the Flagship were members. But alas, that’s not the case.
The movie was 300, not 400.
Not quite what he promised by as Mock and Daisy would say. “It was a bajillion times better.”
I was referring to the extended edition
They are “illegal aliens”.
100% of them claim asylum. 90% of them will either not show up in court or will be effectively called liars about their asylum claim and supposedly are not entitled to be here anymore. Again, 90% are lying about asylum.
The border patrol app which they were using for a while, would allow somebody to set an appointment at an actual port of entry and then get let in on “parole”. Parole was always used for a few dozen people every year. Now it’s done by millions. The app has gone in the toilet, because the cartels have hacked it already. I mean that literally.
They have caught dozens of terrorist operators since Biden enacted this policy. It was always under five with Trump.
Border patrol is totally distracted so they have let in 1.5 million got-aways. There is going to be a terrorist situation from this, without any doubt.
It is stupid to let in all of these dumb, uneducated, wage suppressors when the Fed is trying to constantly create inflation.
The Mexican Cartels are making $13 billion a year on it
It’s national suicide.
We can’t help these people right now.
Thank you for reminding me of Tom Tancredo, Great American. lol
I do think that Rob just doesn’t remember what happened in Trump’s term. Trump campaigned on building a wall, and Paul Ryan torpedoed him. This on top of every Democrat, and many Republicans opposing him at every step of the process. I’m at the point now that even though I disagree with many of Trump’s policies, I’d rather have them than vote for another mendacious Republican. They aren’t really any better than the Democrats, at least the Democrats are honest (mostly) about how they want to wreck the country.
Rob Long misremembered the Trump administration because of his feelings.
Roasted chestnuts are not disgusting. I would place the judgement of millions of people around the world – Europe, Asia and North America – against the opinion of an eleven-year-old child from upstate New York on a visit to the Big City. They may be an acquired taste, but they are not disgusting.
One of my first, vivid, and most pleasant memories of Korea back when Rob Long was two years of age is of the smell of roasting chestnuts (pam in Korean), with faint smoke in the early autumn air. Kurí is the Japanese word, and it appears combined with other words to form surnames…Most all of our ancestors, East and West, were munching on chestnuts long before the cultivation of grains. We should be grateful…
We should remember how hard it was for our ancestors to get enough protein and respect nuts.
Not just people either. When I was a kid, we had several nut trees, including 3 black walnut, 3 filbert (hazelnut), and an English walnut that had been grafted onto a black walnut stump/root and was also very productive.
Each year we would gather and dry the various nuts, and in addition to making candied nuts for teachers etc, we would bring some to the state capitol for the squirrels. There had been a big Columbus Day storm that took out a lot of the trees on the capitol grounds, and there was an annual “nut drive” to make sure the squirrels had enough to eat for the winter.
Lots of people just brought peanuts, and the squirrels would take those well enough. Bury some for later, bring some up into the trees to “squirrel” away…
They really went after our filberts (hazelnuts) and black walnuts, but when we gave them English walnuts they seemed to treat them like gold nuggets.
Squirrels are basically vermin. But they are cute and they certainly don’t spread disease like rats so I’m cool with them. However, pandas are totally useless and should not be revered just because they are cute.
I listen to an episode of The History of Rome Podcast fairly often. I’m on my fourth run through.