Episodes

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...

America was founded on two pillars: Religious Liberty and The Right to Contract. Marriage was, at the Founding, a marketplace, where individuals were required to vet their prospective life partners and, once chosen, enter int...

On Halloween, Conservatives Michael Knowles and Jack Posobiec expressed why they believe the Supreme Court should reverse itself and disallow same-sex couples the Right to Marry. Alan Cohen explains why they are profoundly wr...

Margaret Mead said women were society defined. Therefore, marriage was not an agreement between the couple, but an agreement with society, and agreement that this woman and this man are off limits, off the market. Yet, beginn...

In 1888, four men in black robes changed America forever. In 2015, the United States Supreme Court found that marriage in America began as a private contract that somehow morphed into a public one, never explaining how that h...

Everything you think you know about Family Law is wrong. The ability of the State and Federal government to dictate to married couples and to parents how to raise their children is an unconstitutional fiction. Host Alan W. Co...