By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition From the colonial era onward, the Puritan spirit has shaped the American tendency to mark outsiders as deviant. Kai Erikson’s Wayward Puritans showed that in seventeenth-century Massachusetts Bay, trials of witches, heretics, and dissenters were not simply about eliminating wrongdoers but about drawing […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition From the earliest colonial settlements in New England, the Puritan spirit has cast a long shadow over American life. Rooted in the ideals of moral discipline, community surveillance, and religious posturing, this ethos has shaped not only the institutions of the United States […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition In the Republic of Ambaria, where train stations arrived hours before the trains themselves and the rivers sometimes flowed backward for sport, the people elected a man named Joseph Finnigan. Nobody remembered exactly when he first appeared in politics, though everyone swore they […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition When I first arrived in America in 1998, three images on television etched themselves into my memory: the chaos of The Jerry Springer Show, the impeachment of Bill Clinton with its infamous parsing of “the meaning of is,” and the bizarre arithmetic of […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition In Average Is Over, economist Tyler Cowen makes an optimistic claim: Latino immigration to the United States not only strengthens the American economy, but also transmits liberal and democratic values back to Latin America. The idea is compelling. As immigrants live and work […]
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By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Nikita Khrushchev, born in the humble village of Kalinovka in Southern Russia, embodies a largely forgotten Slavic identity—a confluence of Russian and Ukrainian heritage that has long been overshadowed by more dominant historical narratives. His upbringing in the Donetsk Basin, an industrial heartland […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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