Americana is based on a fundamental understanding, a basic agreement that recognizes that our freedom does not give us permission to assault our neighbor, to disturb our neighbor's rights. In this episode, Alan Cohen delves i...

Purpose. Since Eve was the first to achieve consciousness, the knowledge of good and evil, of our own eventual demise, we exist in a perpetual state of self-evaluation: What is my purpose. The pious amongst us know their purp...

In the early 18th Century, a Great Awakening spread from England and into the American colonies suggesting to slave owners that it was their duty to educate their slaves in the virtues of Christianity. Sixty years later, a Se...

In a recent interview with Michael Knowles, a 19-year-old genius going by the name Clavicular gave the clearest argument yet in favor of the marketplace, restating the American ideal of self-improvement to make himself the mo...

The week before Christmas 2025, Vivek Ramaswamy penned an article in the New York Times describing the United States as a classless society, as a credal society. We all live in privity of the Founding Generation who, by ratif...

The film "Kramer v. Kramer," released in 1979, epitomizes American marriage in the 1970s, where both men and women were lost in a nation that promised freedom, but forced them into roles that they didn't necessarily want. Fed...