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Rubio: "The Old World Is Gone" - Address to the Munich Security Conference

In Munich, Secretary of State Marco Rubio buries the old order, defines the new era in geopolitics in which American allies must be true partners, not…

Feb 16 • Rod D. Martin and Guest Author

Will China Turn the Moon Into Its Next South China Sea?

Beijing’s playbook for sovereignty is as bold as it is simple: claim big, build fast, dare the world to stop it. Now it means to take that strategy…

Dec 23, 2025 • Rod D. Martin

Thanksgiving and Puritan Geopolitics in the Americas

Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay and the little-known colony of Providence Island in the Caribbean were part of a broader Puritan geopolitical strategy to…

Nov 28, 2025 • Guest Author

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

Remembering how the Iroquois treated missionary Isaac Jogues and his companions.

Oct 13, 2025 • Guest Author

Christopher Columbus and the Birth of the Modern World

Far from the monster of Marxist myth, Columbus was a Christian visionary whose courage, faith, and genius ended the Middle Ages and made the modern…

Oct 13, 2025 • Rod D. Martin

The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner

From 1893, the single most influential essay by an American historian tells us why America is exceptional, why it has changed the whole world, and…

May 17, 2025 • Rod D. Martin and Guest Author

Exploration Matters

You just never know what you might find.

Oct 10, 2023 • Rod D. Martin

The Rod Martin Report: October 13, 2018

You can read about the world anywhere. You read The Rod Martin Report to understand it.

Oct 13, 2018 • Rod D. Martin

The Idyllic Culture Columbus Ended

I hereby proclaim Christopher Columbus our RodMartin.org Hero of the Millennium.

Sep 1, 2017 • Rod D. Martin

Cortez and the Aztecs

Modern "progressives" gloss over the Aztec's Nazi-level evil, and laugh about "minor" sins like their mass human sacrifice. But let's consider that.

Aug 14, 2017 • Rod D. Martin

The Rod Martin Report: Happy New Year!

You can read about the world anywhere. You read The Rod Martin Report to understand it.

Dec 31, 2016 • Rod D. Martin

The Rod Martin Report: Merry Christmas

You can read about the world anywhere. You read The Rod Martin Report to understand it.

Dec 24, 2016 • Rod D. Martin

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