The man sat with his back to the bole of a cottonwood and lifted the dog’s ear to find the tick seated there, gray and swollen and pulsing with the slow tide of its feeding, and he took the point of his knife and worked it in beneath the body until it parted from the…
Month: July 2026
Ethnos Downstairs, Technocracy Upstairs
Here’s the multicultural sales pitch: put people with different histories, religions, loyalties, taboos, grievances, and political interests into the same country, remove the common culture, declare every inherited standard oppressive, and then wait for everyone to become interchangeable citizens united by an enthusiastic commitment to municipal recycling. It’s a beautiful idea, provided you have never…
Lindsey Graham Finds Peace and Escape
He came out of the Carolina low country where the sand is white as bone and the rivers run red with the iron of old earth. No father to name him. No mother to bury. Just a sister and the long empty road that led him north into the law and the war rooms of…