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Carthaginian victory means the vindication of the Barcid strain of political thought-- although the old elite may well dispose of the victorious general once his work is complete, so as to secure their own position. They won't be able to kill his legacy, though. In this scenario, an evolution...

Well, that is pretty bad. One Noam Chomsky in the world is one too many! ;)

Ah, yes. The Gospel according to Saint Marx! ;) What do you think? Everybody and his uncle wanted to emulate Alexander, back then! Off to the East, for glory and spoils!

Regarding the origins of Western respect for the individual (which is unmatched by any other civilisation in history), Siedentop has written the fascinating Inventing the Individual. It cannot be dismissed as some reactionary screed; this is a thorough account of (classical) liberalism's strong...

To be fair, though, "Hurr durr if there's no religion, we'll have a much better world!" is a common AH trope. (Among high-schoolers, neckbeards and lefties, at least.)

Yes on that last statement, no on your reading of my comment. Your statement was (re-arranged for clarity): "When corrupt groups get hold of them and use them to maximize their own power, all the Abrahamic faiths are in practice totalitarian systems." My correction was: "When corrupt groups...

Fixed that for you. ;)

More like: "Fellow Germans, that upstart Austrian corporal has led us into a doomed conflict, years before we were ready, just as we've been saying all along. It has cost us much; too much. Now, the time has come to cleanse Germany of the socialist menace -- be they national or international...

The problem here (causing the confusion for the both of you) is that the actual argument/motivation has been somewhat misrepresented in this thread. It's not that a re-occupation of the Rhineland would doom Germany and cause a new war, and therefore the generals would kill Hitler and make him...

The book in question is Agent of Byzantium. (Linked wiki article might contain spoilers; caveat lector.) Actually a set of spy stories set in an ATL 14th century, but with "Mohammed becomes a Christian saint" as the background POD. I think he later added a stort shory featuring Mohammed's...

The most common tropes are "Nazis win" and "Confederates win". Those are just the go-to scenarios for mainstream stuff (because even somebody who knows little about history will get it immediately), and are also the go-to for people who are just getting into AH. So those keep showing up all the...