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 […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition https://www.youtube.com/@Alekseybashtavenko Michel Foucault, a towering figure in twentieth-century thought, is often cited—sometimes worshipped—by postmodernist and leftist academics who seek to dismantle traditional power structures. His writings on discourse, power, and social institutions underpin much of contemporary critical theory, from queer studies to postcolonialism. […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition https://www.youtube.com/@Alekseybashtavenko Santa Cruz del Islote is not just an island — it’s a living metaphor. Floating off Colombia’s Caribbean coast, it is often described as the most densely populated island on Earth, home to some 1,200 people packed into just one hectare of […]
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 […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston to interview Aleksey Bashtavenko, a Russian expatriate about his thoughts on Russia and global politics. A great critique of American culture and politics is contained in this, along with an examination of the retrograde character of Bolshevism and a debunking of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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