“The warnings reached inland ahead of the wreck’s story, carried by an interpreter whose Japanese was trusted because it never sounded foreign…João Rodrigues. Christmas passed without bells. A hearth burned in Edo. Questions arrived clean + sequential… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-twe...

I don’t claim to know the history of Asia-Pacific well. However, I do know accounts of it from interactions in Europe. This is to balance the 12 Festive Frontiers. On the 11th Day, coming up! Make sure to subscribe for its drop: reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe substack.com/@zeitgeistme...

“Winter 1462, maths of empire looked settled. Mehmed II had spent the previous decade teaching Europe how inevitability felt. Constantinople had fallen in 1453—epically—it was not romantic in the slightest, it was blood and gore. Happy Christmas! Then.. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/christmas-...

“Please send your question before midnight EST on December 31st. I promise to approach it with the full Medici lens—historical memory, structural realism, and influence mapped across time rather than headlines. The predictions are free. The depth is optional… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

Was Vlad Dracul a vampire? History doesn’t care. But he was a demon. This isn’t a silly history of him haunting— that’s so played out. This is a Xmas raid that might have killed Mehmed II who was bent on revenge and taking extraordinary risk. Paid. Stay tuned reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/subscribe

“South of the Alps, an English exile stops writing—he’s an obscure, at that point Protestant who studied greatness at Cambridge before BloodyMary: he is Francis Walsingham. Correspondence, once punctual, frequent, fervent, ends without farewell. Why?.. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/influenza-...

This isn’t a silly: what if the Spanish Armada won? Or if Mary Tudor has killed Elizabeth? So. Done. This is a real analysis of the very documented and deadly influenza epidemic in London Christmas 1558. And let’s just say: it is NOT simple. Stay tuned. Full essay available for paid subscribers.

“By the final days, Cairo, as capital, behaves like a node in a system that expects strain and plans accordingly. Cavalry formations drill north, holding position. Irrigation works are reinforced to narrow approaches. Signals are standardized. Messengers move on schedule substack.com/@zeitgeistme...

Tell me why The Ref is the best or very best Christmas movie of all time? #theref #therefchristmas Christine Baranaki, Judy Davis, Denis Leary, some other guy, Glynis Johns (RIP). If you dont agree, why dont you eat… youtu.be/eK5VFGiP6Tw?...

“Christmas Eve arrives early in Lorraine that year, hard and sudden, without courtesy. Snow falls sideways outside Nancy, not the soft ceremonial kind but the kind that erases edges. Roads vanish first. Then landmarks. Then plans. The Moselle freezes… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-eig...

“Winter already governs the empire by 1415. Power moves on frozen roads. Authority crosses rivers locked into glass. Decisions depend on whether a man on horseback reaches the next city before fever or frost intervenes. For Sigismund of the House of Luxembourg… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“Responsibility is the oldest form of legitimacy. That is the governing idea behind this endorsement of Romney’s call to tax the wealthy, including himself, in order to stabilize the American fiscal future. I worked on his successful 2002 MAGOV race… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/when-the-w...

A last minute gift for the history nerd who already owns everything? For one day only, I’m opening five (5) custom ReRouted by History commissions—built from the ground up, written to order, and delivered before Christmas Eve night. Historical, rigorous reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/24-hour-ch...

“He orders—violating protocol—the chain crew to wake. The iron is to rise early. The chain begins to lift out of the water like a serpent of metal. Links drip black and heavy. Strain. Pulleys squeal. The sound carries farther than it should in cold air… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-six...

“Frost clings to the stones along the Arno. Breath turns visible in cloisters and workshops. Doors close earlier than custom. The pattern feels familiar because it is. Fever circulates. Rashes bloom. Weakness follows. Servants whisper. Mothers pull children closer… substack.com/@zeitgeistme...

This project exists because imagination functions as rehearsal. Societies strengthen their future by expanding their sense of what remains possible. If you believe history unfolds through choices that shape horizons, this work is written for you. Paid subscription: open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

If you believe civilization advances through expertise, memory, and institutions that outlast strongmen, then this work is for you. Paid subscription is Medicean. I keep as much content free as possible at release because I believe these stories need to be told… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

“The storm does not announce itself. It tightens. The sea darkens first, flattening in a way seasoned pilots distrust more than waves. Wind follows in uneven bursts, not enough to frighten, enough to distract. Canvas strains. Hulls complain. No time... reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-fou...

“Trump did not desecrate a tragedy because he is powerful. Trump desecrated a tragedy because he is small. Smallness must insert itself into every frame, every moment, every wound. He is Humperdinck off to the Pit of Despair (Truth Social) to loose… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/i-would-no...

“That reality explains why the noise has spilled beyond boardrooms. Trump’s insistence on inserting himself into the decision process is not incidental theater. It is a tell. When brute personalities demand a voice in cultural governance… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/why-the-ne...

I am sorry in advance for multiple posts. But the sickness of this era needs defining even more at this moment. The Princess Bride is not only a Shakespearean-level classic for the ages, but morality displayed in such stark contrast. Trump proved who he was.Join me later substack.com/@zeitgeistme...

“Why the Netflix–Warner–Paramount Bidding War Is a Fight for Cultural Custody—Then There’s Trump Florence Not Rome: A Reboot on Power, Culture, and Control The Medici side-eye here should give you a hint 👀 “ substack.com/@zeitgeistme...

“Trump is staging ‘justice’ with crackpots, cronies, and even convicted criminals themselves. He is installing figures who fail the very moment anyone asks whether they are real. Which brings us, inevitably, to Naples. Because, of course.. open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

Ready yourself: Trump’s toadies are being struck from their ill-gotten positions left and right while their motions are being denied on a precedent unseen in centuries. MAGA minions are the modern state admin of Naples under the taxidermy despot himself: Ferrante. 🫡 substack.com/profile/3936...

“Philip IV commits the state to simultaneity. Lists finalize. Wax hardens, plans depend on morning arriving everywhere at once. Every door. Every house. Every brother. Authority expects time itself to obey. The Templars feel the pressure before it announces itself… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“Bartolomeo Colleoni stands at the center of this constraint. His campaigns across Lombardy shaped him into the consummate condottiere, a figure who understood terrain, momentum, and morale with an instinct sharpened by decades of paid war…. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-lion-w...

“Two figures glided across Osman’s furs with the quiet assurance of men who had ended fathers, brothers, chiefs. Their hands held woven silk cords. Old Turkic craft. Silent. Final. A method chosen when steel offered too much sound and too much story…. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-sec...

“History indicts because the structure that precedes the breach remains unchanged across centuries. Sources document the same rhythm. A crack in legal order. A spectacle of perception. A division among allies. A narrative that moves the horizon... reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-peace-...

It’s strange…all this week, 4 stories: 1.) FIFA’s gives Trump the Peace Prize, 2.) FIFA also said NO Russian assets should be sold to aI’d Ukraine. 3.) The Trump administration is forcing the same 4.) Trump warns of “civilizational erasure” of Europe. WE CONNECT ALL THE DOTS. YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS…

Breaking economic news about further numbers revised down on consumer spending—shocking, right? See our rapid analysis of it. open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

Putin rejects the “peace plan”—read up on why we predicted this a week ago using history! open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

“Trump’s return reshapes expectations in every way. Firms ask how to plan for tariffs that can triple overnight. Supply chains calculate new exposure. States brace for fiscal shocks. Regulators lose direction. Employers stop hiring across horizons… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-heir-w...

“Cabinet officials face growing scrutiny over ethics and legality. The United States still wears the outward trappings of a constitutional republic. The behavior inside the building looks more and more like a Curia and court of a Borgia... reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-make-...

Buckle up, buttercups! It’s dropping later this afternoon! substack.com/@zeitgeistme...

“The day sharpened into a moment that changed far more than the battle. The fog that could have blunted the Ottoman bowstrings is where we reroute our history, that hinge that could have changed a century—in our tale, it created the illusion of a collapsing empire… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“Power moves thru the Caribbean in the shape of a policy that claims legality while leaving bodies in the sea. History offers its indictment: 15th-17th CE witnessed a maritime terror so pervasive entire regions organized their calendars around fear… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/todays-dru...

You will not want to miss today’s Reboot The Renaissance! It’s cannot miss. The analogy is eerily horrifying. Make sure you’re subscribed! reboottherenaissance.substack.com/subscribe

“Christmas morning did little to soften the knives in Naples. The Pope’s chamber might have glowed with prayer but the rest of CastelNuovo became winter forges of panic. Caetani understood instantly: hesitation was contagion. If resignation was refused… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-fir...

Be sure to gift the gift of subscription, even for only a month, you won’t want to miss this series! substack.com/@zeitgeistme...

“Trump’s “deals” are wrapped in detonators disguised. This moment deserves Renaissance framing because the Renaissance understood the stakes. Memory was a civic instrument. History was a constitutional weapon. Precedent was a political compass…” reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-peace-...

Tom Stoppard has sadly passed. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been waiting… apple.news/AA8Fg23wbTfS...

Is the second season of #palmroyale the best gay romp ever? Wait. That wasn’t supposed to be a question. If #carolburnett doesn’t get another #Emmy for just episode one, there should never be awards anymore.

“Under this thunder of pride and pressure stands Mircea cel Bătrân, the aged prince of Wallachia. The crusaders believe they know all. Bayezid believes he owns it. In the dark beneath the Danubian canopy, the hinge of history waits for a misplaced hoof… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-forest...

“One divergence begins in that volatile winter. A single shift. A single choice. This is all it takes for history to reroute itself. Not Ferrante’s treachery. Not a French landing. Not a papal betrayal. The baronial alliance refuses to fracture but rallies instead… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“Florence understood something that many modern free market apostles pretend not to hear. A republic survives when prosperity circulates. A republic decays when prosperity stagnates. The instrument The Medici reached for was a wealth assessment… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/an-argumen...

Turns out, the architects of capitalism: The Medici actually instituted its own wealth tax. Even on themselves! Can you imagine? They refined the world’s very first income assessment in 1427 into a virtual duplicate of what is being proposed as a wealth tax. Stay tuned today for the whole story!

“Florence woke in the ash-gray dawn: sounds of bells rolling across the Arno. They rang in a rhythm the city had not heard in years. For markets reopening. For councils reconvening. For a city that had outlived the plague, the siege, the papal curses… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-treasu...

“When her coffin was carried through the forum, crowds did not chant her name. They recited her: Law is the language of the living, not the lament of the lost. The phrase echoed through the arches, then through centuries. Chroniclers called her Livia.… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-second...

“The walls bristled with hired courage. Mercenaries lined the battlements. Averardo’s men sallied out, torched siege engines, poisoned horses, whispered through camps that the gold had run out. For Hell, was rehearsing itself in the fields of Tuscany… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...

You won’t want to miss tonight’s EPIC: FROM PETER’S PURSE TO CAESAR’S CHEST Part II — The Siege, the Dowry, and the Disappearing Bride Florence Marries the Empire, Betrays the Church, and Births a Dynasty in Shadow reroutedbyhistory.substack.com