Hendrix's Eccentric Commentary

Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs

Category: History

  • End of Empire Envy

    7/19/25 All empires come to an end and I think I am living through the last days of the American empire.  As I look at this fiasco I have end…


  • Peace in our Time

    2/13/2025 Apparently Donald Trump, President of the United States and Vladimir Putin, President of Russia are to meet and end the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is not invited.  I would…


  • Musk’s Role

    2/7/2025 There has been a lot of confusion over how to describe the role of Elon Musk in the Donald Trump presidency.  Some, pointing up the power the Musk wields…


  • Big Historiographical Thought for the Day

    1/29/2025 There is an argument made that it was the temperance movement, and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (Prohibition), that ended the Progressive Movement, the wave of reform that…


  • Big Historiographic Thought

    12/16/2024 Big Historiographical Thought for the Day:  It is perhaps pretentious for me to have a philosophy of history, but to the extent that I do, it is that history…


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