Bret Devereaux

Bret Devereaux is an ancient and military historian and currently an assistant teaching professor at North Carolina State University. His blog is A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.

3 articles

Liberal Currents Live

Liberal Currents Live: The Cheap Precision Strike and the New Way of Raiding

Are drones fundamentally altering the nature of war for the worse, not for the better?

Adam Gurri, Samantha Hancox-Li, Guillaume A. W. Attia, Bret Devereaux Oct 1, 2026

Neon Liberalism

Trump vs. the Ayatollbooth (Neon Liberalism #68, with Bret Devereaux)

Last month, Donald Trump started a war—or perhaps a special military operation—with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Join

Samantha Hancox-Li, Bret Devereaux Apr 5, 2026

Neon Liberalism

Neon Liberalism #20: The Sulla Fantasy

Samantha and guest Bret Devereaux talk the fall of the Roman Republic, Elon Musk's obsession with the dictator

Samantha Hancox-Li, Bret Devereaux Mar 25, 2025

Editor's Notes: Taking Ideology Seriously

Attacking the Enemy Within, Aiding the Outside Enemy

Better Win a District: Arkansas’s Second

Liberal Currents Live: The Cheap Precision Strike and the New Way of Raiding

Trump vs. the Ayatollbooth (Neon Liberalism #68, with Bret Devereaux)

Neon Liberalism #20: The Sulla Fantasy