From CW2 Cube to Culture War 2.1: How Matt Bracken’s Theory Evolved into Today’s Fragmented America

In the early 2010s, retired Navy SEAL and political novelist Matt Bracken published a provocative essay titled “CW2 Cube. In it, he proposed a three-dimensional model for understanding how a second American civil war might play out—not along neat geographic lines, but via complex interrelations of race, ideology, and allegiance to government authority.

The Crusades: A Just War for the Survival of Christianity

Modern academics and popular media often portray the Crusades as a series of brutal, unprovoked wars of Christian aggression against a peaceful Muslim world. This narrative is not only historically inaccurate, but deeply unjust to the generations of Christians who answered the call to defend their faith, their fellow believers, and the very existence of Christian civilization.

Vlad the Impaler: The Brutal Warlord Who Fought to Halt the Spread of Islam in Europe

In an era where kings bowed to the advancing Ottoman Empire, one man chose terror over tribute. Vlad III of Wallachia, better known to history as Vlad the Impaler, was no diplomat, no saint, and certainly no peacemaker — but his reign of calculated brutality served a singular purpose: to keep Christian Europe from falling under the crescent banner of Islam.