Recent Episodes
Feb. 1, 2026
EPISODE 11: TARGETING THE BASIC AGREEMENT THAT IS AMERICANA
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...
Jan. 25, 2026
EPISODE 10: RENE GOOD, A USEFUL IDIOT SEEKING PURPOSE DYING FOR A USELESS CAUSE
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...
Jan. 18, 2026
EPISODE 9: CAN A THIRD GREAT AWAKENING SAVE AMERICA FROM ITSELF?
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...
Jan. 7, 2026
Episode 8: Clavicular Destroys Socialism
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...
Dec. 24, 2025
EPISODE 7: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN IDENTITY
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...
Dec. 14, 2025
EPISODE 6: KRAMER V. KRAMER AND THE DEATH KNOLL FOR THE AMERICAN FAMILY
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...
Recent Blog Posts
Dec. 28, 2025
What Is An American? How the History of Marriage Explains It All
By Alan W. Cohen Are we a credal nation, or something entirely different? Is, as some on the Far Right, claim, a descendent of the Mayflower more American than a third-generation citizen …
Nov. 24, 2025
The Crisis of the American Family: A Libertarian Solution
Signs are everywhere. They are impossible to miss. Fifty years ago, teenage girls dreamed of being a wife and mother, while young boys saw marriage as both something to avoid, an inevitability. Society demanded it. A recent survey shows te…
Nov. 6, 2025
Michael Knowles and Jack Posobiec Got It Wrong on the Same-Sex Marria…
By Alan W. Cohen Michael Knowles and Jack Posobiec have got it all wrong about marriage, and especially about same-sex marriage. While they are correct in stating that marriage was created as a religious institution for the purpose of creat…