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This, as if you’ve not noticed, is a special time in American history. Ground-shifts in prevailing thought mark the times that will be remembered for the lessons they offer, at least for those who will preserve the wisdom, carry it into the future, and put it to work there.

Humans are one of the thinking animals. Those of us concerned with the quality of said thought tend to focus on broader issues: reduction to essence, deconstruction to an underlying premise, relational analysis. If there is a narrative to be promoted in this camp, it is one that encourages the Berean trait of cross-verification, for the truth fears nothing from inspection.

The polar opposite is the philosophy you might have seen embraced by NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher, where: “Truth is a distraction from getting things done.” These are the left- and right-hand outliers, one might say, on the ideological bell-shaped curve of standard distribution.

Our primary challenge in life is navigation, and that depends entirely on maintaining our perspective. Vices beckon from the left and virtue from the right: fear versus hope, dependence competing with strength-building, short-term gain versus enduring long-term gratification.

What you think matters, which is why such extreme efforts are made to manipulate your thought.

Loving life as we must, ultimately we must accommodate the fact that its beauty lies in fleeting fragility, and that to truly endure we must affiliate ourselves with something more. Faith, patriotism, fidelity, and family is where we can find a connection to the future that will outlast ourselves.

There is a distinctly American culture that remains under attack by homogenizing globalists; they realize the ideology of the Founders was specifically designed to counteract politically predatory motivating influences. The weave of American society, produced on the loom of the last decade in the eighteenth century, utilized threads of character wound with virtue rather than vice, and it’s not surprising the political Left is grasping at these one at a time to see where unraveling self-focus might begin.

Voices with your best interest in mind—as opposed to theirs—will encourage strength, independence, courage, and charity. Beware those who call eternal virtues outdated; virtue, like truth, endures for the simple reason that actuality needs to be accommodated. The state of affairs in natural law is starting point for the successful, while a faulted premise embraced and extended consistently ends in disaster (See: Harris/Walz 2024).

The political Left, at this moment, is reeling from a significant setback. To make this moment endure, here at the potential threshold of another ‘Era of Good Feelings,’ we need to highlight at every turn of the national conversation the fundamental strengths of virtue and the recurrent failings of vice. The contrasts are stark and the realization now widespread. The future depends on our courage in preserving the national character’s reflection of moral, ideological Americanism.

Granted, participating in history, rather than simply passing through it, is not for the faint of heart. Boone’s advice to a young Dina Lyubov in A Garden in Russia, though, applies for us all: “When fear keeps you from your promises, your duty, from accomplishing whatever it is you are tasked to do by your love for others … only then are you a coward.”

Go live like an American. Choose to love.

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In other news, my internal debate between getting a fair price for my work and having those titles go unread has been resolved, with the result of November sales outpacing the previous months of this year combined. To be sure, I was given a vision to write as I have, not one that I should much profit from the work. Such is the nature of a ministry. Interest accrues in a realm beyond our sight.

To that end, all Dale Amidei novels have been priced at less than a buck until at least the turn of the New Year. Feel free to load up your device with my compliments, please tell other readers, and we’ll see what 2025 brings.

In your case, may it be blessed. -DA