I am linking the 3 versions of my first book. For the last 11 years, there has only been a paperback version, so I am happy to see these updates: Hardcover: Egypt and the Origin of Civilization: The British School of Culture Diffusion, 1890s-1940s This text represents a thorough examination of primary source material regarding the Heliolithic school of cultural…www.amazon.com Kindle: Egypt and the Origin of Civilization: The British School of Culture Diffusion, 1890s-1940s This text represents a thorough examination of primary source material regarding the Heliolithic school of cultural…www.amazon.com

The only constant in life is change. Everyone knows this. Sometimes change is good and sometimes it is not so good. Everyone enjoys change that is for the better and everyone hates change for the worse. However, which of those categories any change happens to fall into is often subjective…

A little over one hundred years ago, a scintillating story was published in an Arizona newspaper, The Arizona Gazette, which claimed that an extraordinary discovery had taken place in the Grand Canyon. (If you haven’t already, you can read the article here: Grand Canyon. In order for you to understand…

There are several ways in which one may detail the history and development of ideas. Lately, I have been particularly frustrated by reading and hearing immense confusions about the emergence of classical liberalism and libertarianism. Libertarianism alone is often attacked on foolish and either deceptive or ill-informed grounds. This is…

Among the vagaries of human existence is the fact that some have their lives unfortunately cut short prior to the fullest realization of their potential. Recently I stumbled across an example of just such a phenomenon. …

It has been called world’s most mysterious manuscript. Today it is housed at Yale University in the Beineke Rare Book Library where it is known simply as MS 408. From the very beginning, this manuscript has been considered a deep and abiding mystery. Questions about it have swirled for hundreds…

Unnatural Beginnings Dark legends abound regarding the Codex Gigas, the largest Medieval illuminated manuscript in existence, not only regarding the origins of the text but also the content as well. According to these legends, the codex was created in a single night when a condemned monk formed a pact with Satan himself…

The Age of Trump has brought with it some very odd things. Recently Reason’s Nick Gillespie posed the question, “Is Jonah Goldberg Turning Into a Libertarian?” Before addressing Gillespie’s tentative answer to that question, I think it is best to first take a look at the current landscape of conservatism…

Just when I thought I had found the end of the line in terms of conspiratorial documents, I remembered one long since forgotten. Forgotten by me that it is. Not forgotten by those who hope to turn up evidence of nefarious plans and government cover-ups. But this one falls outside…