Soft Power, Chinese Style. By Fu Pei-Jung.

Soft Power, Chinese Style: Can Ancient Philosophy Help China Rule the World? By Fu Pei-Jung. Worldcrunch, January 6, 2013.

The Disengagers. By David Rothkopf.

The Disengagers: Kerry, Hagel, and the end of American military adventurism? By David Rothkopf. Foreign Policy, January 7, 2013.

After the Fall: What Do You Do When You Conclude America Is (Temporarily or Permanently) Kaput? By Barry Rubin.

After the Fall: What Do You Do When You Conclude America Is (Temporarily or Permanently) Kaput? By Barry Rubin. PJ Media, January 7, 2013.

Drone cold truth. By Ralph Peters.

Drone cold truth: Sparing innocents, not terrorists. By Ralph Peters. New York Post, January 6, 2013.

Dershowtiz: “Racist And Bigoted To Say That Guns Are Quintessentially American.”

Dershowitz: “Racist And Bigoted To Say That Guns Are Quintessentially American.” Real Clear Poltics Video, January 7, 2013.

Dynastic Asia. By Kishore Mahbubani.

Dynastic Asia. By Kishore Mahbubani. Project Syndicate, January 3, 2013.

Netanyahu the Palestinian. By Alex Joffe.

Netanyahu the Palestinian. By Alex Joffe. Project Syndicate, January 2, 2013.

Arab States of Uncertainty. By Shlomo Ben-Ami.

Arab States of Uncertainty. By Shlomo Ben-Ami. Project Syndicate, January 4, 2013.

The Enduring Egypt-Iran Divide. By Mehdi Khalaji.

The Enduring Egypt-Iran Divide. By Mehdi Khalaji. Project Syndicate, December 31, 2012. Also find it here.

Ending India’s Rape Culture. By Naomi Wolf.

Ending India’s Rape Culture. By Naomi Wolf. Project Syndicate, December 31, 2012.

Egyptian Cleric Abu Islam Ahmad Abdallah Explains Why He Ripped Up the Bible.

Egyptian Cleric Abu Islam Ahmad Abdallah Explains Why He Ripped Up the Bible. MEMRI TV Video Clip #3624, October 1, 2012. Find transcipt here.

A Woman’s Role Is to Instill Love of Jihad and Martyrdom in Her Children. By Umm Osama.

Umm Osama, Wife of Hamas MP Khalil Al-Hayya: A Woman’s Role Is to Instill Love of Jihad and Martyrdom in Her Children. Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza), December 2, 2012. MEMRI TV, Video Clip #3703. Also find it here. Find transcript here.

Failure of Empathy? Megyn Kelly interview with Dr. Keith Ablow.

Jarring New Video Shows Ohio Student Joking, Laughing About Rape. Fox News Insider, January 8, 2013.

Student in online video regrets comments in Ohio rape case. Failure of Empathy? Megyn Kelly interview with Dr. Keith Ablow. America Live with Megyn Kelly, January 8, 2013.

We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists. By Dr. Keith Ablow. FoxNews.com, January 8, 2013.

Wading into the Middle East morass. By Jackson Diehl.

Wading into the Middle East morass. By Jackson Diehl. Washington Post, January 6, 2013.

Will Hagel Learn from Eisenhower’s Mistakes? By Michael Rubin.

Will Hagel Learn from Eisenhower’s Mistakes? By Michael Rubin. Commentary, January 7, 2013.

Iran Gets the Message on Hagel. By Alana Goodman.

Iran Gets the Message on Hagel. Alana Goodman. Commentary, January 7, 2013.

Open Societies at War: A Comparative History, 1939-45. By David Hackett Fischer.

Open Societies at War: A Comparative History, 1939-1945. By David Hackett Fischer. Video. History News Network, January 6, 2013.

The George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History. Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 5, 2013.

Also find it here.

Remains of prehistoric Britain. Photo Gallery.

Remains of prehistoric Britain. Photo Gallery. The Telegraph.

Single girl in the UAE. By Sarah Bladen.

Single Girl in the UAE. By Sarah Bladen. The Telegraph, January 4, 2013.

Post-Mortem. By Laura Hollis.

Post-Mortem. By Laura Hollis. Townhall.com, November 8, 2012.

Open letter to Laura Hollis: This is why you lost. By sujigu. Daily Kos, December 29, 2012.

Brennan’s Quest for a Moderate Hezbollah. By Michael Rubin.

Brennan’s Quest for a Moderate Hezbollah. By Michael Rubin. Commentary, January 7, 2013.

Giffords and Kelly: Fighting gun violence. By Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly.

Giffords and Kelly: Fighting gun violence. By Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly. USA Today, January 8, 2013.

Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly Launching Gun Control Initiative. By Bob Christie and Brian Skoloff. AP, Huffington Post, January 8, 2013.

The Siege of Numantia, 133 BC: Sources.

The Siege of Numantia, 133 BC: Sources.

Numantia in Ancient Sources. Attalus: Sources for Greek and Roman History, 322-42 BC. Links to all extant sources.

Appian’s Roman History, Vol. 1, pp. 271-295 (Book 6, Chapters 14-15, Sections 84-98). By Appian. English Translation by Horace White. Loeb Classical Library. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1912.

Also find it here, here, here, and here.

Also find Appian’s Roman History at:

Perseus Digital Library. Gregory R. Crane, editor-in-chief. Tufts University.

Livius: Articles on Ancient History. By Jona Lendering (a Dutch historian).

LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World. By Bill Thayer.


Drama:

Numantia: A Tragedy. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by James Y. Gibson. London: Kegan, Paul Trench and Co., 1885. Also find it here and here.


Historical Essays:

The “Fiery War” and the Siege of Numantia. By Salah. Historum, July 21, 2012.

The Celts in Iberia: An Overview. By Alberto J. Lorrio and Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero. e-Keltoi: Journal of Inderdisciplinary Celtic Studies, Volume 6: The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula.

Cervantes’ Numancia and Imperial Spain. By Willard F. King. MLN, March 1979.

The Sacrifice Theme in Cervantes’ “Numancia.” By William M. Whitby. Hispania, May 1962.

Amity and Enmity in Cervantes’s La Numancia. By Sabatino G. Maglione. Hispania, May 2000.

Numantia. Wikipedia.

Celtiberians. Wikipedia.

Arevaci. Wikipedia.

Michael Savage: Time for a “Nationalist” Party. By Drew Zahn.

Michael Savage: Time for a “nationalist” party. By Drew Zahn. WND, January 6, 2013. Also at Klein Online.

Zahn:

Michael Savage, one of the nation’s most prominent voices in talk radio, said today America is “absolutely” ripe for a third party, in part, because the two largest parties in the U.S. have pulled a “charade” on the American people.

 

“There is no Republican Party,” Savage told fellow talk show host Aaron Klein. “It’s an appendage of the Democrat machine, as we’ve all just seen. It’s two-card Monte, as we well know. It’s a game being played against the American people. You’ve got the drunk Boehner on the one side, and the quasi-pseudo-crypto Marxist on the other, who is really just enjoying the ride in Hawaii right now, representing his factions.”

 

Instead, “We need a nationalist party in the United States of America,” said Savage on WABC’s “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” suggesting a party focused on “borders, language and culture.”

 

He continued: “You have the rudiments of a new party in this country called a tea party. They need to restructure their party. They need a charismatic leader, which they don’t have. When you say, ‘Tea party,’ no one knows who the leader is, because there is no leader. No man has stepped forward who can lead that party – no one who is an articulate speaker, a charismatic mover of people.

 

“The tea party is the rudiment of the new nationalist party,” Savage explained. “Somebody has to bring them all together, unite them like King David did the ancient tribes of Israel. And there is no King David out there. Who’s the King David? Tell me who is going to do it?”

 

What about Savage himself?

 

“I could do it if I was 20 years younger. I would do it right now,” Savage told Klein. “But I’m not 20 years younger, and I don’t have 20 years left in me. This is going to require enormous resources and enormous energy. I can guarantee you, Aaron, if I ever did this I could raise probably $100 million within three months easily.

 

“There are people so frustrated by the democracy that is gone in this country, the structure that has replaced our democracy is what I meant to say, that they would clamor for the new nationalist party,” Savage said.

 

Savage also pointed out the term “nationalism” needs to be redefined, as it’s too often associated with Hitler and the National Socialist Party, the Nazis, of 1930s Germany.

 

This association, however, Savage claims is simply the design of the “internationalists” in the ranks of the left and leftist media who desire to “dissolve the sovereignty of nations.”

 

“Borders, language, culture has been my motto in radio from the beginning,” Savage explained. “Nationalism is the only thing that can save America, and a new nationalist party that has a very strict firewall that does not permit the radical fringe of racism.”

 

He continued, “Going forward we have to, I think on radio, continue to educate the audiences about nationalism and the importance of our nation and our nation’s sovereignty – borders, language, culture. Borders, language, culture – it defines every nation on the planet, the flag, the language, the borders. And what is it the internationalists do? They want to dissolve the borders, they want to introduce multiculturalism, they want to introduce a Tower of Babel of languages.”

 

Savage had much more to say in the interview, which can be heard in its entirety here.


Radio host Michael Savage rallies for “nationalist” party to battle Republicans. By Steven Holmes. Examiner.com, January 7, 2013.

Radio host Michael Savage calls for “Nationalist ” third party to challenge GOP. By Geoff Herbert. Syracuse.com, January 7, 2013.

The Savage Nation. Audio. WABC, October 18, 2013. Discussion of nationalist party through all four parts of the podcast.

Aaron Klein Interviews Michael Savage on the Nationalist Party. Audio. PowerFusion50, February 6, 2013. YouTube. Also here.

The culture war is over, and conservatives lost. By Matt K. Lewis.

The culture war is over, and conservatives lost. By Matt K. Lewis. The Week, January 3, 2013.

It’s time we conservatives accepted an alarming truth: Americans no longer agree with us.