If you caught @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social ‘s piece about overtourism in Europe—take a peek at a way to travel that avoids flooding the sites we hold so dear. As someone who relocated to Europe, I agree! jaywaytravel.com/blog/can-cus...

Can Custom Travel Fix Overtourism? JayWay Invites You To Travel

With low-cost airlines, glossy guidebooks, and of course, social media fueling a massive surge in travel, it's no surprise that overtourism has become an

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Apologies for the long absence. But hopefully this makes up for it. Substack was not cooperating for me over the past two weeks. *sigh* The King and the Cruise Missiles: Charles VIII, Trump, Epstein and the Ancient Temptation of Diversionary War reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-king-a...

The King and the Cruise Missiles: Charles VIII, Trump, Epstein and the Ancient Temptation of Diversionary War

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Sir Winston Churchill reportedly said to an airman he bestowed the Victoria Cross upon for valor: “You must been rather humble and awkward in my presence, but think how humble and awkward that I feel in yours.” Churchill would’ve said the same about the people of Ukraine now 4 years in. Salut them.

Take a watch of Prime Minister of Denmark, MitteFrederiksen, on the importance of Article 5 and alliances. Then take a read of our piece on her and Greenland: Europe’s Hero Who Wears No Cape—Because She Doesn’t Need To reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/europes-he... youtube.com/shorts/z7Jrf...

Europe must 'stick together' in face of US hostility, says Danish PM

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If record profitability coexists with widespread cost anxiety, and price relief arrives only after collective irritation, then the market is functioning exactly as designed. The real question is do we intend to keep this legal and incented? reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-price-...

The Price of Silence: From PepsiCo to Palazzo. What Democrats Forgot—and What the Medici Knew

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Dont miss it… America’s Intentional Economic Free-Fall: How Policy Chose Descent—Refusing Every Safe Harbor open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

Whoever this woman is: she is far smarter, well read, and savvier than any political figure on the far right. She’s a Reboot The Renaissance archetype. We salute her. She is a hero who needs no cape, like our recent piece: reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/europes-he...

What comes next is an assemblage of white papers, policy positions, economic reporting, and data all analyzed. The new concentration of data/reports are coming into focus. This is intentional. I did the homework for you. I hope you give it a read: reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/americas-i...

America’s Intentional Economic Free-Fall: How Policy Chose Descent—Refusing Every Safe Harbor

Reboot The Renaissance: Cosimo’s Secret Guardaroba is where the future is plotted, one whispered dispatch at a time.

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We’ve got a barn burner on exactly how bad the impending U.S. economic collapse will be combining 6 different recent—and seemingly disparate—reports that we will bring full Medici focus to. Only for Cosimo’s paid subscribers. Stay tuned! (Yes, that’s our Drunk Dude of War parachuting into disaster)

“This democratic advantage becomes visible when coercive actors are denied the payoff they crave. Authoritarian impulses thrive on urgency—on the idea that outcomes must be fixed quickly, that power manifests most strongly when violence or the threat reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/europes-he...

Europe’s Hero Who Wears No Cape—Because She Doesn’t Need To: On Time, Territory, and the Democratic Advantage That Authoritarianism Cannot Grasp

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It’s not news that Trump backed down from his Greenland gambit. What is? That quietly organized, Trump was outwitted—shocking. Denmark hosting its largest ever protests and King Charles III whispering to Trump show that there is power in persistent coordination against bellicose bluster. Stay tuned.

“The quiet advance of a comprehensive trade agreement between the European Union and India, representing nearly 2 billion people, is not a headline stunt. It is not a snub. It is not a protest. It is something far more dangerous to declining powers… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/ursulas-un...

Ursula’s Universe: Patience, Pragmatism, and Persistence in a World Where America Governs as an Assassination State

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While Trump runs his Assasination State, Europe under Ursula von der Leyen negotiated a deal with India 22 years in the making—that has tectonic ramifications across trade, supply chains, capital, and labor. Stay tuned for our analysis of this Medicean masterstroke. open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

“This is why Assassination States are not defined by their rhetoric. They are defined by who survives proximity to power. Democratic systems depend on witnesses. Courts depend on witnesses. History depends on witnesses. When a state begins treating.. reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/the-assass...

What’s the difference between the maniacal Duke of Alba’s Council of Blood in Netherlands at the hands of the Spanish and the extra judicial powers absconded with by ICE, DHS, and DOJ? Smartphones. Otherwise, the comparison is chilling. Stay tuned this morning.

Coming tomorrow. This isn’t the first, but it certainly should be the LAST Assassination State. Historical parallels will rouse ardor for action, if not, you are as cold as The Council of Blood that occurred in the Netherlands. reboottherenaissance.substack.com/subscribe

“Carney’s speech pierced the remaining illusions. By naming rupture, he rejected the comforting fiction that the old order merely required adjustment. Adjustment implies continuity. Rupture implies aftermath. The difference matters... reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/carneys-co...

Carney’s Concert of Economic Powers: How the Premier’s Davos Speech Echoes the Concert of Europe After Napoleon

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“Although Musk and Trump claimed DOGE would cut massive amounts of government spending—initially up to $2 trillion and later revised downward—exhaustive reporting found that actual federal spending went up during DOGE’s activities rather than down... reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/one-year-i...

One Year In, The First Sin Of This Term: DOGE Is Still Among The Worst—An Alexander Pope Analysis

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“Where The Medici dissolved themselves into Florence, Trump pastes himself over America, leaving nothing underneath that can breathe... reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/civic-glor...

Civic Glory or Personal Glare: What The Medici Understood About Power That Trump Never Will

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Didn’t the Peacemaker in Chief end our war with Iran? 🤔 Iran warns neighbours it could hit US bases if Washington strikes - www.reuters.com/world/china/... Take a look back at our June analysis on Trump v. Iran: open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

Iran warns neighbours it could hit US bases if Washington strikes

Tehran has warned neighbours hosting U.S. troops that it would hit American bases if Washington strikes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters, as Iran seeks to deter Donald Trump's threats to interv...

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“The killing of a commoner during local enforcement by the central royal authority of the realm shattered a shared assumption. The crown had crossed into protected sphere of civilian life. The act registered as revelation rather than accident. Today… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/when-autho...

When Authority Kills The Peace: Paris, 1358 • Minneapolis, 2026 — The Moment Enforcement Loses Legitimacy

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Reboot The Renaissance will be up with a historical comparison between The Jacquerie in Paris 1358 and the murder in Minneapolis of Renee Good. Please stay tuned. reboottherenaissance.substack.com/subscribe

“The assault witnessed on January 6th revealed a severance from this social contract. There. That’s the phrase. A Social Contract. John Locke. Locke informed David Hume, who informed Burke—it is a contract that binds us all together… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/reflection...

Reflections on the Sixth of January Capitol Insurrection: A Meditation on Moral Obligation, Authority, and the Perils of Unrestrained Passion

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I’m going to try my best to channel Edmund Burke in his meditations on The Reign of Terror through his: Reflections On The Revolution In France via the lens of the 5 Year anniversary. Stay tuned…. Reflections on the Sixth of January Capitol Insurrection reboottherenaissance.substack.com/subscribe

“Two truths hold at once. Maduro presided over a hollowed state, an economy driven into ruin, and a political order enforced through coercion. The U.S. crossed a boundary that exists precisely to prevent the strong from declaring order by force… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/removal-is...

Removal Is Not Rule: When Tyrants Fall & Disorder Multiplies—From Cesare Borgia to Venezuela’s Extraction Error

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“The contradiction between John Quincy Adams’s doctrine and contemporary action does not require interpretation. It does not need either “the spirit” or the “letter” of the document to be argued in the margins. It appears in Adams’s own warnings… reboottherenaissance.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

Venezuela and the Desecration of John Quincy Adams’s Doctrine: Adams, the Medici, and the Moment America Violated Its Own History

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An emergency Reboot is in the works given the “American First” foreign regime change today. Stay tuned for analysis with: “Venezuela and the Desecration of John Quincy Adams’s Doctrine: Adams, the Medici, and the Moment America Violated Its Own History” reboottherenaissance.substack.com/subscribe

“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...

Before the Turn of the Wheel: Signs Written in Advance—From You!

Friends of Rebooting this republic with Renaissance humanism and insight,

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“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-...

Influenza Claims Elizabeth. England Divides: Europe Decides. Winter Took the Crown. Chaos Took the State

Because history doesn’t repeat itself—it remixes.

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“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...

When the Wealthy Pay First, the Republic Endures: A Full-Throated Endorsement of Mitt Romney’s Call to Tax the Rich—In the Grand Tradition of The Medici

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