Creaturehood

The COVID Fracture

The Pandemic Policies That Tore America Apart In 2020 and 2021, our suburban streets emptied. Playgrounds sat silent. School parking lots became ghost towns while kids stared at screens. Neighbors glared at each other over masks in grocery stores. Families split at dinner tables over vaccines. Old friendships ended with the question “Are you vaxxed?” What began as a response to a virus became one of the most divisive events in modern American history. It turned neighbors, families, and communities against each other far more than the virus itself. The root causes were panic-driven centralization of power and the suppression of…

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Divided Among Ourselves

How Mass Immigration Fractures Native American Solidarity and Why a Complete Pause Can Restore It I live in Plano, Texas. The changes I described yesterday (the mosques, the layered languages in the parks, the shifting rhythms of daily suburban life) are not abstract. They have done something deeper and more insidious than simply altering the face of my hometown. They have fractured us, the native-born Americans who built these neighborhoods, these schools, these parks. Neighbors who once shared the same unspoken assumptions about backyard barbecues, English-default conversations, and a common Texas cadence now eye one another warily across the street. Parents…

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The Incompatibility Warning

Britain's Demographic Suicide Is Coming Here Unless We Act Now I wrote my last column from the front porch of the suburban Texas life I grew up in. I looked out at the same streets I played on as a kid and watched mosques rise where churches and community centers once stood. I heard conversations in parks where English used to be the default. I saw kids struggling to find common ground because their parents come from worlds that never shared one. And I said plainly: I don’t want my country to become a shithole country. I don’t want what’s happening…

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Restore the American Melting Pot

The Unrecognizable Hometown: How Hart-Celler Killed the Melting Pot and How to Bring It Back I live in Plano, Texas. Less than a mile from my house stand two mosques that have quietly reshaped the rhythm of daily life in what used to be a classic suburban neighborhood of wide streets, backyard barbecues, and kids riding bikes until the streetlights came on. Parks where my neighbors once spoke English as the default language now echo with multiple foreign tongues: Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, and others I can’t always place. Children struggle to make simple friends because the common ground has narrowed; casual…

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Building AI’s River Rouge

Factories, Financing, and Freeing Energy The column started with a single X post from @HedgieMarkets laying bare the financial engineering behind the AI boom: massive data centers funded through special purpose vehicles, off-balance-sheet debt, and leverage that would make a subprime lender blush. Meta's $27 billion Hyperion deal with Blue Owl, Oracle's $38 billion Vantage play tied to OpenAI's Stargate, xAI's $20 billion raise looping in Nvidia GPUs-these aren't just big numbers. They're bets on explosive revenues that have to show up in the next 5 to 15 years, or the whole structure risks looking like a house of cards when…

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Shepherding Order

From Empathy to Exploitation: The Cycles of Weakness and Renewal In a past that is now lost forever, There was a time when the land was sacred, And the Ancient Ones were as one with it. A time when only the children of the Great Spirit were here To light their fires in these places with no boundaries. When the forests were as thick as the fur of the winter bear, When a warrior could walk from horizon to horizon on the backs of the buffalo. When the deserts were in bloom, and the streams pure as freshly fallen snow. In…

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A Farewell to Gabriel Barkay

The Man Who Let the Dirt Tell the Truth I’ve spent more evenings than I care to count parked in front of the TV, letting ancient Jerusalem rise from the screen like dust off a dig. That was back in the aughts, when The Naked Archaeologist aired-Simcha Jacobovici charging through history like a man possessed, and there, steady as bedrock, was Professor Gabriel Barkay. Calm. Precise. And armed with a dry wit so sharp it could cut through limestone. I laughed out loud more times than I can count, not because the man was a comedian, but because truth delivered deadpan…

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Revival in the Land

America's Path to Revival in the Wake of Evil On September 10, 2025, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during a midday speaking event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The event, part of his "American Comeback" tour organized by Turning Point USA, drew about 3,000 attendees to an outdoor courtyard when a sniper’s bullet struck Kirk in the neck from approximately 150 yards away. Vigils now light up across the country, with leaders like Utah Gov. Spencer Cox properly calling it a "political assassination" demanding a national turning point, while Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) condemned it as a…

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Creaturehood in a Modern Age

Rooted in Essence: Creaturehood and the Call to Stay Grounded in a Modern Age In an era where butter-making machines and self-driving cars promise efficiency, the lingering preference for churning butter by hand, pumping water from a well, or solving equations manually strikes a poignant note. This list of choices-favoring stairs over elevators, hand-grinding coffee over automatic grinders, and visiting the post office instead of emailing-whispers a deeper truth about creaturehood, a theme woven through the fabric of American literature and art. As we embrace technology to boost productivity, the literary legacy of figures like Robert Frost, Norman Rockwell, and a…

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