Today my focus is on American culture. Contrary to what the “elites” in this country believe, there is an American culture. Moreover, there are distinct regional cultures in the United States, in places such as the South, the Midwest, the West, and New England. But a common thread throughout these regional cultures is that which makes us uniquely American.
The United States is not a “multicultural” society, nor was it ever intended to be one. People are welcome to come here, but only if they are willing to adapt to our country, our culture, and our way of life. America is not a place to work, or earn money to send back to where you are from, or a place that must, or should, accommodate your tribal habits present in your country of origin. We are not interested in animal sacrifices, people speaking foreign languages instead of English, or in honor killings because your daughter decided to date or marry out of your religion or heritage.
America is for Americans. May it always be so. I hope you enjoy the commentaries below.
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American identity: What is American culture?
If you refuse to set aside the culture and identity of the place you left, you are not welcome.
BY: Cole Ellison, The American Thinker (October 14, 2026).
Americans have been told since the 1960s that we are a melting pot, a nation of immigrants, and that immigration built America. Both sides of the political aisle have largely accepted and advanced this story, often to destructive ends. It is time to reclaim what it means to be an American.
Being American is not a licensing question or a matter of paperwork. It is not merely geographical. The Supreme Court has ruled that birth on American soil makes one an American. I disagree. If you asked the Founding Fathers—George Washington or John Adams—what it means to be an American, they would not have struggled for an answer. They would have said that anyone may join the American project and that all are welcome. But they would also have insisted on clear rules for participation.
To be an American, you must assimilate into American culture. You must pledge allegiance to this country. You must speak its language. You must adopt its morals and standards. You must obey its just laws. You must respect the religion on which the nation was founded, even if you do not fully share it. And you must understand that if you arrive from outside this heritage, full assimilation takes generations. This country is the birthright of those whose ancestors came from England, founded the colonies, fought the monarchy, and settled the West.
The immigrants who historically came here came from Western countries that shared a common worldview rooted in Christendom for more than 1,500 years. They did not come seeking handouts. They came ready to work, fight, and if necessary, die for the chance to belong. There was never a true melting pot. There was a clear idea of what America is and should remain. Newcomers were expected to mold themselves to that idea while recognizing they were joining an existing people whose ancestors had already paid the price for the opportunity.
If you refuse to set aside the culture and identity of the place you left, you are not welcome. You are either fully American or you are not. There are no German-Americans, Italian-Americans, or other hyphenated versions. A nation is its people. Until recently, this nation was made up of rugged individualist Christians of Anglo-Saxon stock who stood against tyranny and were willing to die for the principles that built the country. Anyone who seeks to overturn that foundation—whether born here or not—is an enemy of the American state. Even those whose ancestors stepped off the Mayflower can betray the country by adopting a foreign culture and working to change what America has always been.
It is time to be proud of our American heritage. The ideas that shaped this country reach back to ancient Greece, to Aristotle and Plato, to the Magna Carta, to the British constitutional tradition, to the Church of England, to the Crusaders who defended Western civilization, to the Founders who fought for sovereignty, to the men who fought one another in the Civil War over states’ rights and the end of slavery, and to every generation of American men who have confronted evil at the cost of their own lives.
It is not wrong to note that those men were overwhelmingly white Anglo-Saxon Christians. The only reason that reality has been obscured is that certain people have deliberately worked to erase it. They have labored to subvert the meaning of American identity, to elevate every other group, and to import cultures that dilute what this country is. We can debate their motives. What cannot be debated is the result.
Heritage Americans must stop apologizing. It is acceptable to be white. It is acceptable to be Christian. It is acceptable to be traditional. Our ancestors lived by these truths for nearly two thousand years. The notions that now demand we feel shame for them are recent—forty or fifty years old at most—and they are destructive.
We cannot continue to toil; we cannot continue to feed into this suicidal ideology. We must recognize the threat to the West. Cardinal Robert Sarah states, “As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West. The barbarians are already inside the city.” The threats to our civilization, but more importantly to our future generations, are as real today as they were during the Crusades. If this fact doesn’t make your blood boil, then it is time for you to start learning your history. We must look to history, we must look back to our ancestors and remember why this country, why this civilization, why the West is worth fighting for.
It is time once again to fight for those first principles that helped our forefathers build this country; our fates and the fate of Western Civilization depend on us. I refuse to let our generation be the one to allow the West to fall.
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American Identity: How to fight for it
It’s good to love America. It’s better to do something about it.
BY: Cole Ellison, The American Thinker (October 16, 2026).
I called for Americans to fight for the West in my previous article, “American Identity: What is American culture?” Now I’ll explain how to do that.
Many conservatives today are more concerned with being influencers and podcasters. These men and women sully the name of true patriots. They like to tell you what’s wrong with the world but never seem to have a plan for fixing anything. They complain and rage-bait for clicks to line their pockets without ever adding value to the world. I’m sure a few of these come to mind.
To fight means different things depending on what side of the aisle you land on. To conservatives, it means “pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get out there,” or “use your wallets to teach them a lesson,” or more recently, “vote for the left and burn it all down and restart.” To a large and expanding portion of the left, to fight means to assassinate effective opposing voices, to threaten and intimidate those they disagree with. If their demands are not met, they burn down cities and attempt to execute those who dare stand in their way.
I want to make my stance clear, so there is no confusion. When I say fight for the West, I do not mean go and look for trouble. I am calling for you to defend yourself, your neighbor, and your community. Because once you put yourself in the way of the mob, they will attack you, and you need to be ready.
A clear case study of this is Kyle Rittenhouse. He placed himself between Americans and a mob. The government refused to take action to protect its citizens and their property and to enforce the rule of law, and a young man decided he had had enough. He did not arrive with the intent to harm others. He did not look for a fight, but he showed up and, when threatened, defended himself.
Conservatives want to sit back and vote their way through the conquering of their nation. It is time to stop sitting back. You’re going to be called a racist. That is another justification for the left to attack and kill you. So defend yourself. Make no mistake: Half of the left publicly celebrates when a conservative is killed, and the other half just doesn’t post about it on social media.
Edmund Burke had a particular idea about something he called prejudice. I know you’re thinking you just watched an H.R. video on this recently. Don’t worry — that is not the kind of prejudice I’m talking about. In “Reflections on the Revolution in France” (1790), Burke wrote that prejudice “previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision.” He also wrote that society “becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
Burke believed that people inherit judgments and lessons from those who came before them. This lets a society function without forcing every generation to relearn every hard lesson from scratch. A mother tells her child which plants are poisonous. She learned it from her mother. The child does not have to test every plant himself. The same principle applies to how groups of people have behaved over time. Pretending those patterns do not exist does not make anyone safer.
Taking ideas like this and putting them back into our culture is a form of fighting back. We have let destructive ideology shape how young people see the world for too long. Fighting back does not always have to be physical, and honestly, that should be the last option. First, we should force our ideas back into the public square.
You may say, “Well, how can I do anything?,” and I think that is just a lazy argument. Do you know at least five people? Do you know a single person? Talk to him. If you share similar ideas, go into the public square. Educate yourself. Study your history. Support the people already saying these things out loud and putting themselves and their families at risk to do it.
The left knows how to support its own. Leftists know how to make themselves heard. They go out in public and push back. If they don’t like a policy, they protest. Conservatives, Republicans, libertarians, America First, MAGA — whatever you want to call this coalition, it is made up of a lot of people who will never set foot off the couch. If they do, it’s to a ballot box, and then back to the couch. There have been some patriots under Trump who have gotten more involved, and that is good, but it is not enough. We need to be involved in our local government, school boards, PTO meetings, and churches if we ever want a chance. That is fighting. It is fighting for the institutions our forefathers built. Stop retreating and start advancing.
In closing, defend America. Defend your neighbor. Defend your beliefs. Organize to the best of your ability. The men who built this country were willing to fight over smaller things than what is at stake now. When the time comes, and others decide they want to burn down cities or assassinate someone, fight like hell.
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Who are the colonizers?
In the days preceding the arrival of the Mayflower, the land that is now America was a vast, sparsely settled wilderness …
BY: Eric Utter, The American Thinker (October 16, 2026).
In the days preceding the arrival of the Mayflower, the land that is now America was a vast, sparsely settled wilderness. Most of the few allegedly “indigenous” peoples here were nomadic. They themselves arrived here by crossing the then-land bridge from what is now Russia. Tribal wars were common. There were no buildings or infrastructure.
After the English and other Europeans arrived, civilization took hold. This eventually led to homes, roads, schools, hospitals, heat, air-conditioning, lighting, phones, television, insurance, computers, the internet, movies, video games, free markets, disposable income, the automobile, airplanes, advanced medicine and surgery, greatly increased life expectancy, and generational wealth.
Oh, and recognition of the inherent rights granted us by our Creator.
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Why is it okay to celebrate Nelson Mandela, but not Stonewall Jackson?
In the Atlanta airport, you can find art installations dedicated to foreign, anti-white, blood-thirsty communists, but not American giants.
BY: Olivia Murray, The American Thinker (October 15, 2026).
This is not an essay to debate the merits of the War of the Rebellion—the official and legal name for what many mistakenly call the American “Civil War”—but one to simply recognize the absurdity of where our culture is at today. (A “civil war” is where two factions fight for control over the same government, and the military conflict between 1861 and 1865 was one of secession and two separate governments.)
As many of you are probably aware, I just spent a week in the Bahamas, and upon my return, I came through the Atlanta airport. In the baggage claim area, there was a massive “art” installation, featuring Nelson Mandela’s not-so-handsome mug.
I find this utterly disgraceful. Not only because of who Mandela really was, but also in the context of the current political climate and the mass removal of American statues and memorials, dedicated to great American men.
First of all, Mandela was not even American. Secondly, he was a communist, and a very evil man (but I repeat myself).
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC, which Mandela founded, was responsible for the violent murders of dozens of innocent South Africans, many of whom were “necklaced.” (“Necklacing” involved shoving a gasoline-filled tire around someone, and then lighting it on fire.)
Mandela’s wife Winnie even said this about the gruesome method: “[W]ith our boxes of matches and our necklaces we will liberate this country.” Necklacing, at the hands of Mandela’s goons, was most often committed against black “collaborators,” individuals who were believed to be too friendly toward the white government. Here’s just a snippet of Winnie Mandela’s political tendencies:
Stompie Seipei, a 14-year-old activist accused of being an informer, was killed after being abducted by Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards and beaten at her house in late 1988.
A series of witnesses have detailed killings, beatings, torture and other atrocities allegedly committed by Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards, known as the Mandela United Football Club, in the late 1980s in the Soweto black township.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was ironically authorized by Mandela when he was president, concluded that “the majority of casualties of MK operations were civilians.” These civilians,
…included ‘collaborators’ such as councillors, state witnesses at the trials of the ANC members, and suspected informers.
In other words, they were ‘deliberately targeted individuals’, says the [TRC] report.
In attacks such as the detonation of car bombs outside buildings housing security forces, the casualties were predominantly civilian passers-by.
There were also a number of blasts in public places such as restaurants. Cadres seeking amnesty for such attacks explained that wrong intelligence had led them to believe security force members frequented these places.
Mandela and his men didn’t mean to murder civilians, they were really trying to murder the men in uniform!
So why does he have a place in our public square?
But not only that, why does he have a place in our public square, as we erase American men of great renown?
I understand any discussion about the War of the Rebellion seems to elicit a great level of emotionality from many Americans, so disregarding any of the controversies regarding the true causes of the conflict, let’s all just be intellectually honest and recognize that Stonewall Jackson was an American great (among many other men who believed in the secession cause). If you don’t have a problem with George Washington or Thomas Jefferson being referred to as great men, then you sure as heck shouldn’t have a problem when I say the same of General Jackson.
Jackson was a very pious man, and lived his life accordingly, famously avoiding crass and profane language. His love for the blacks is (or should be) well-known: before the war, Jackson personally established and ran a ministry, serving both enslaved and free blacks. Critics will say Jackson’s teaching enforced the established hierarchy, but one must consider the historical context. Or, hop on X right now where you can find endless videos of blacks being murderous, or consider what society is like for everyone (including the blacks themselves) in every black-run nation, and you might find yourself agreeing that maybe, just maybe, certain cultures and systems are in fact superior. He also taught many blacks to read, in a time when black literacy was not permitted—because he did not hate blacks.
He was a Christian first and foremost, and Christianity values each and every human life as inherently valuable. Jackson was also a brilliant tactician, so much so that his military strategies are studied still today.
So again, regardless of your opinions on the war, men like Jackson should be revered, and men like him rightfully have an honorable place in America’s public square. The same goes for greats like Washington and Jefferson, both of whom also had flaws, and both of whom have had their reputations tarnished and their likenesses torn down by homegrown communists.
On the contrary, individuals like Mandela decisively do not have a place of reverence here—and a society tolerating such an inversion is heading toward collapse.
Who will I see next at the Atlanta airport? Chairman Mao? Vladimir Lenin? Pol Pot?
GFK
