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 into history to give context into what is happening in America circa 2025, particularly on the streets of Minneapolis. History shows today's events are little more than a power play, theater for the faint hearted. Moreover, history shows that today's events are miniscule comp

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 purpose: To Serve God. But the Rene Goods of the world are empty vessels in search of purpose, seeking to fit in. And the Rene Goods of the world are thus susceptible to death cults. Thus, rather than seeing her purpose as a mother of a young child, she sought a place in a grand

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 Second Great Awakening triggered the beginning of the end of chattel slavery in Western Civilization. This surge in religiosity, with the Quakers as the moral leaders, caused Great Britain to, not only end the slave trade, but to become its greatest foe. Eventually, this movem

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 most marketable individual possible by maximizing his greatest asset, his looks. In so doing, Clavicular espoused a naturalist theory of the human desire for beauty, that as scientists have confirmed, is ingrained in our DNA. Yet, Clavicular is not being crass, he is restating

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 ratifying the Constitution as the governing document of the Declaration of Independence, agreed on behalf of themselves, and the citizens of their respective states, that we were all free to pursue happiness in our respective faiths and raise our children in our faiths, and that

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. Federal policies and social pressure insisted that Joanna, the wife, seek a life where she would marry, have children and stay at home, while Ted was likewise forced into the role of provider. Joanna escapes only to return to force Ted back into his role, only to, miraculously,