I’ve spent the best part of four decades studying Russia and things Russian. And I’ve always regretted that, unlike the Russians and many other nations, Americans don’t use words like “fatherland” or “motherland” to describe their country. The closest we have is “homeland.” When used by Americans, that word, like most of the language we use to describe ourselves and our country, has a...
By Darrell Dow In the last five years, the net worth of the top 0.1 percent has rocketed from $12 trillion to $23 trillion. The average new homebuyer is 59 years old, up from 36 15 years ago. To deal with affordability anxieties, President Trump — supposedly representing populist right economics — endorsed 50-year mortgages. It’s no wonder Generation Z is seething with frustration. Their...
By Wayne Allensworth Human beings live in webs of relationships — relationships that overlap but are prioritized by most people in most places, in most times, by proximity. These priorities are the basis of moral teachings which, when codified and extended to all members of a polity in law, become institutionalized, at least in theory. But the oldest rules of all, the ones we know without needing...
By Wayne Allensworth Our conscious memory is like a mist that covers the summit of a vast, awesome mountain. Brain scientists say that we retain memories of everything that ever happened to us. Under hypnosis, or during a near-death experience, a panorama of one’s life can be drawn out of the mist. And sometimes memories veiled by the unconscious mind can still, they say, affect our conscious...
By Wayne Allensworth It’s been a tumultuous first month in Donald Trump’s second term as president. It’s early days, yet, but there have been some good signs … March 2 was Texas Independence Day. I recall vividly my boyhood years when local and state pride was very strong, not yet as diluted by the homogenization of modernity, aided by air travel, mass communications, and the interstate...
By Wayne Allensworth After observing with some amusement—and a great deal of frustration—the Internet blathering about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin, I decided to do a brief question/answer piece on the Russia-Ukraine imbroglio and what it means for us, the American Remnant. I couldn’t come close to covering every point, but I have posted a number of articles on this website on...
By Wayne Allensworth The idea of progress holds that mankind has advanced in the past … is now advancing and will continue to advance through the foreseeable future… The idea of progress is a synthesis of the past and a prophecy of the future. It is inseparable from a sense of time flowing in a unilinear fashion. — Robert Nisbet, History of the Idea of Progress The 21st Century has been...
As They Say, ‘Demography Is Destiny’ By Darrell Dow “In coping with identity crisis,” Samuel Huntington wrote in Clash of Civilizations, “what counts for people are blood and belief, faith and family. People will rally to those with similar ancestry, religion, language, values, and institutions and distance themselves from those with different ones. … In a very fluid world, people are looking for...
By Wayne Allensworth A few years ago, researchers at something called the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) bragged–because they thought this was a good thing–that my old hometown was now a “global city,” something much more like the international hubs in New York, Paris, and Los Angeles. The researchers pointed out that, judging from its “global connections”...
By Wayne Allensworth In a recent column, Pat Buchanan noted rampant dysfunction in our land–mass shootings, the George Floyd religious cult, skyrocketing murder rates–and wrote that “it seems our country is coming apart.” If that weren’t enough, in March, and again in April, 167,000 alien invaders were caught crossing the Southern border of the United States. They...
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