If Ridley Scott wanted to go full fantasy with Gladiator II, he might as well have actually done a plausible restoration of the Republic right after Commodus! Luckily, we reroute the history here on what might have been! Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

Here’s the Gladiator II film Ridley Scott should have made about a real story of the emperor after Commodus who did attempt to restore the a quasi-republican system. We reroute it and see if he had succeeded…stay tuned Friday!

“Ahmad al-Mansur inherited the absolute crown & built an empire of splendor: the El Badi Palace, the conquest of Songhai, the sugar fortunes of Marrakech. Imagine a single difference: a fever, a vision, a moment of revelation on that blood-soaked plain… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/a-rerouted...

Stay tuned tonight!

“Something of Hadrian lingered there. Something of Antinous. What if the Red Sea’s most remote outpost, Farasan, was never a garrison at all, but a grief disguised as devotion—a palace hidden in coral where an emperor once tried to escape the world?.. reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-palace...

“Through The Medici lens, we see the metamorphosis of civic finance into factional faith. Lorenzo’s Florence ran on reputation. Trump’s DC runs on retribution. The Treasury has become a tribunal. The accounting sheets, a list of enemies. Indulgences for the loyal… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

Coming up for a special weekend edition: we apply The Medici Method(™️) on how states can “Rollout The Receipts” as the kids today would say, with the federal government illegally impounding its funds.

Incredibly insightful comments hot-off-the-printing presses of President Emmanuel Macron on liberal democracy and social media. The Medici would agree. Take a look at the article, plus our profile of him: defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ... reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/macron-il-...

“Into this fevered imagination walked a woman: Theophanu, Byzantine-born, Ottonian-crowned. Married into the West in 972, widowed too young, regent of an empire that doubted her, mother of a boy many believed destined to close the book of history itself reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-regent...

The great economic unmasking begins. The ADP jobs data is getting closer and closer to predicting the BLS numbers—catch up on what we wrote about the Phantom Quarter economic fundamentals below from last month: reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-mask-o...

“For those pretending Machiavelli stands at his shoulder—whispering clique cynicism into his ear, validating each abuse—let us call the esteemed Florentine secretary to the stand. His writings are clear, his intent sharper still. Demolish distortion reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/maga-misre...

For any of the MAGA morons who want to shroud themselves in Machiavelli at training MILITARY in AMERICAN cities, you’ll be in for a rude introduction to the real Niccolo. Stay tuned, Humanists. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

“In real history, Crusaders took Antioch, carved principalities, and toppled Jerusalem in 1099. But here, with the pilgrimage dissolved in the mud of Nicaea, Fatimids fill the void. Jerusalem falls not to the West, but to Cairo, everything changes... reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

“At the heart of that frost stood one woman, denied her coronation yet crowned by circumstance: Elizabeth Stuart. She was no Winter Queen where she wore the Bohemian crown. No, she became something greater. What followed was Europe’s first Cold War… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-winter...

Since today still feels like summer, I went out and decided to start rereading one of my favorite books that has inspired me to dive into historical writing myself: The Darkening Age by #CatherineNixey. I forgot how striking this dichotomy of quotes is.

Since today still feels like summer, I went out and decided to start rereading one of my favorite books that has inspired me to dive into historical writing myself: The Darkening Age by #CatherineNixey. I forgot how striking this dichotomy of quotes is.

“This assault is weaponized against patriotism. A Trump-aligned candidate in NJ now circles Sherrill’s privacy like a vulture. The message is as clear as it is chilling: step into public life as a veteran opposing the regime, and your very life will be laid bare… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

Far left @reason.com (again, please understand sarcasm), has yet another devastating piece on the regime’s state-run economy: reason.com/2025/09/26/a...

“The MAGA project depends on ignorance. It depends on a citizenry unmoored from facts, leaders untethered from planning, and institutions stripped of foresight. To kill the Global Trends report is to blind America by design. It is the most blatant declaration yet… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

We must shatter this myth of “neutrality” in media with truth, facts, verified data, and provable claims. Read my piece on how 50/50 “unbiased” coverage has been distorted into supplication. open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

This is OUTRAGEOUS. Hands off Sherrill’s service files! Also, CBS @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy , grow a spine, this is an egregious violation of a service member’s privacy. www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

“The next American election—if it is permitted to be free—will be about more than the transfer of power. It will be about the transfer of narrative. Who gets to tell the story of America when authoritarianism has already maimed its institutions, mocked its norms… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

“A titan of media, gilded in capital and cloaked in brand prestige, bends the knee to Trump, yet again. AppleTV is postponing The Savant, Jessica Chastain’s series about infiltrating extremist cells. The timing: grotesquely convenient, even as Jimmy Kimmel returned… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

“Ladders up! Shields high!” Godfrey’s voice cut through the din like a bell. Men surged forward, wooden ladders thudding on walls. Seljuk arrows hissed down, punching through leather, rattling off iron. A knight clambered high, sword in hand: Deus vult! reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

What a week, huh? open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

MSNBC is reporting… www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...

Art has always been the ultimate instrument of influence. No regime can withstand its awesome and inherent power to persuade. The Medici and other Renaissance humanists knew this better than anyone. Keep up the pressure. It’s working.

“Plans crystallized before them: Bucquoy’s forces into Bohemia by harvest, Bavarian reinforcements by winter, Spanish tercios crossing from the Low Countries. Prague to be surrounded, starved, then struck with artillery until it knelt: months not years… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-window...

“This was the first hinge. Before Antioch’s endurance. Before Jerusalem’s fall. Before legend hardened into history. Here, at Nicaea, the First Crusade would decide whether a pilgrimage would be war or whether it would collapse into sand soaked blood… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

To Jimmy Kimmel and the free market of speech! Subscribe to Reboot The Renaissance! reboottherenaissance.substack.com

Another choose your own adventure! The Road To Nicaea, tonight! Vote on which way this rerouted tale should take after one twist makes the landscape a geopolitical monopoly board of 11th century magnitude. Subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“ ‘In the name of our ancestors!’ one shouted. Hands seized Slavata’s collar, another gripped Martinice’s belt, and with a heave that seemed to summon centuries of resentment, they hurled them into the bright air… Make sure to vote on which reroute we shohld take! open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“In our real history, the men landed miraculously in a dung heap (no, really, look it up), bruised but alive—a bizarre divine comedy that Dante couldn’t have written better. But in this rerouted by history, Prague Castle’s courtyard was swept clean… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-window...

What if the Second Defenestration of Prague (1618) what if resulted in a courtyard spattered with blood instead of dung? How would have the most pivotal hinge in the 17th century have played out? Stay tuned tonight and vote on which route you’d like us to take in part two!

“Called The Red Spire Legion: a brotherhood of zealots, mercenaries, deserters, bound by oaths of spectacle. The legion carried wagons of sharpened spears, each one destined to bear a body. They marched behind a banner: a black dragon rearing over a crimson spire... open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“Genoese crossbowmen loosed bolts that sang through the mist. Moldavian horse archers wheeled and loosed fire into the Ottoman flanks. When the Gothic charge struck, Ottoman sipahis reeled as if shattered by the very bones of the plague pits beneath their hooves… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“A brother dead at the frontier. The prior lays the letter on the altar, beside the rib. He does not speak of grief. He names the fallen. The choir takes the syllables and lifts them into a chant that sounds like surf striking caves… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

I know. I know. Our current history is terrifying enough… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-habsbu...

“The regime has decided that thought itself carries a price. Trump unveiled a $100,000 levy on H-1B visas: one that ferries engineers, coders, scientists, and scholars into the American bloodstream. No simple paperwork and processing. Now? Tariffs on intelligence… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

A year later, the vow became a fleet. Caffa’s harbor looked like a painting unfurled. Galleys with scarlet sails tugged against their anchors. On the quays, knights in black cloaks assembled in rows, silver crosses stitched to their chests. Genoese banners spanned in—the new standard of the order…

The Habsburgs were perhaps the most cold, calculating manipulators behind the curtain of any dynasty. But did they almost plot to unchain Vlad Dracul “Tepes” The Impaler to loose him upon their Hungarian adversaries? Well, we imagine it, TOMORROW! You won’t want to miss the bloody good time… 🧛🏻‍♂️ 🩸

Johannes replied, his words preserved in parchment: “I will guard the sepulchre of the Euxine until my bones join theirs.” open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“Black Death erupted here: spilled from these walls as Mongol besiegers catapulted plague over the ramparts. Genoese ships carried the contagion pouring pestilence like spilled oil. Every stone of the crypt was stained by memory. Now memory was a weapon reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-order-...

From skull-lined crypts to dawn-lit battlefields: the Order of the Euxine Sepulchre was a crusade that nearly happened. The knights who rose from tombs to fight the Ottomans—not Hollywood, sounds like it, right? But in reality a road history could have taken. Stay tuned TOMORROW!

“In 2025, the Cornhusker State has become a cautionary tale. What was a billion-dollar surplus has withered into red ink. It is no mystery. Nebraska is now the purest lab for MAGA: tax cuts up front, deficits out back, and a social safety net pulled until it tears… open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

Like and share this post if you’d love it if we did a Q&A with @karenattiah.bsky.social on the state of modern humanism for our Substack!

“But this rerouting, a hinge turns. Luitpold does not take the bait. Scouts, hardened Slavic allies from Moravia, warn of Magyar traps—they minted realms in such tricks. This tale springs the snare before it can snatch the sovereign of East Francia from storybooks… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

“Largely a mirage,” says Gregory Daco of EYParthenon. He’s right. Strip out the trade whipsaw and the economy runs tepid, not triumphant. Imports surged almost 38% in Q1, then fell over 30% in Q2: “the largest decline outside a recession since 1969.” reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-mask-o...

Nothing says global partnership like luring allies across continents, then locking the banquet hall. Embassies once exchanged gifts of gold and grain. Today? Ghosted meetings and bureaucratic vanishing ink. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...