Reviews and Reflections on Life In America
By Wayne Allensworth My carpenter father once told me that I was thinking too much. He had taken me to work with him and set out a task for me, and I was moving far too slowly to suit him. I was maybe 12 or so, so it was probably a demolition job. I was pausing, as if I was facing resistance from the wood and sheetrock that opposed me. I was eyeballing the enemy and gauging every blow. Daddy was...
By Wayne Allensworth The failure and waste of the Ukraine war is a sign of globalism’s impending demise. The Ukraine war is nearing its end, and with it, the American superpower and its bid for global hegemony may end as well. As of this writing in late March 2025, Russian forces have surrounded Ukrainian troops in Kursk Oblast in the Russian Federation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
By Wayne Allensworth “AI will replace humans for most things”—Bill Gates More than once, I’ve written that the American Remnant cannot grow complacent or indulge in triumphalism after President Donald Trump’s stunning political comeback in November. It’s all good fun to watch Fox News personalities mock the “word salads” of Kamala Harris or again state the obvious — that we all know the...
By Wayne Allensworth It surprises me that after decades of combating the left, many conservative pundits and commentators still don’t seem to get it — “get it” as in understand the assumptions that underlay leftist ideology. Those assumptions regard something at the core of human experience, something that has been with us as long as humans have existed. The problem we face is not one that can be...
By R. Cort Kirkwood In the category of “you can’t make this up,” one of the far-left Democratic U.S. congressmen who landed in El Salvador to secure the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien and MS-13 terror gang associate deported in March, was an illegal alien himself. That congressman is California’s Robert Garcia, 45, now a citizen. He was just a wee shaver when his family...
By Wayne Allensworth On Easter Sunday before the service, I was sitting in church and watching the congregants come in. What I saw gave me some cause for hope. A few of the ladies wore hats — “Easter bonnets,” we called them in the past — and low and behold, a few of the children were dressed up. Dresses, ties, little jackets. It’s not that I think God cares what people wear. It’s about us...
By R. Cort Kirkwood Two new reports offer new details about deported Salvadoran illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The news should further embarrass far-left Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen and those who follow him to El Salvador to secure Garcia’s release from the nation’s terrorist confinement center. But alas, that news likely won’t dampen their ardor for Garcia. The Tennessee Highway...
By Wayne Allensworth A scene near the end of David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai resonates with the older me. Colonel Nicholson, played by the great Alec Guiness, is walking the length of the bridge built by British soldiers in a Japanese POW camp under the colonel’s supervision. He pauses and looks out over the waters of the river and notes that he has had a good life and career, but that...
By Wayne Allensworth This piece originally appeared in Chronicles Magazine some years ago. I thought it appropriate to repost it as Holy Week begins. On Palm Sunday, I took a walk. It’s the first day of spring and the sky shows China blue, decorated with small cotton-like puffs of clouds. Flowers are blooming and the ducks at the pond have laid their eggs. The beaver are back—I can tell by the...
By R. Cort Kirkwood Far-left crackpots on social media have normalized the idea that President Donald Trump and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk should be assassinated. The frightening news comes from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, which reports that almost 60 percent of leftists polled have no problem with someone murdering Trump. And almost 50 percent have no problem with...
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