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The Crisis of Defining White Culture

Jeremy Carl is President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organizations. Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images file

Jeremy Carl’s stuttering defense of white culture during his Sen...

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Benito Bowl 2026: A 500-Year-Old Wake-Up Call

This article is a guest essay written by Sam Floyd

Another epic Super Bowl halftime performance is in the books, and the U.S. is left doing what it always does afterward: telling on itself.

From the moment Bad Bunny was announced as...

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How to Understand and Defeat American Fascism

As the violence of President Donald Trump’s agenda increases, spreads, and becomes impossible to ignore, most Americans have come to the realization that fascism exists in America, but they have yet to realize what causes fascism and that A...

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How the Fugitive Slave Act Helps Explain ICE's Terrorism Today

In sub-zero temperatures, marchers in downtown Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday, January 23, 2026, waved signs decrying ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the Twin Cities metro area, Operation Metro Surge.Alex Kormann—The Minnesota...

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The American Leviathan: Nasty, Brutish, and (Hopefully) Short

Official Presidential Portrait of Donald Trump

Last week, President Donald Trump sat down with the New York Times for a wide-ranging interview, in which he said that only one thing could limit his powers: “My own morality. My own mind. It’...

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    Founder & Philosopher-in-Chief of The Sustainable Culture Lab, and author of The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America

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