Sarah Kendzior recently penned a must-read newsletter essay on Substack entitled Quicksand: Gen X was right after all. I am not of the X generation but do have two adult children who are. I keep thinking about her reference to the scars we incur and endure as human beings.
by Thomas Drake On 4 July 2026, the United States turned 250 years old as it celebrated its Semiquincentennial anniversary and the birth of a new nation. But the question that hangs over every firework and every flag is not merely how far the United States of America has come,
Eyewitness for History by Thomas Drake “They transform pain into social media content. They turn pain into predator contentment. The pursuit of truth is always noble: but not the sluggish or careless release of a partial reveal. Not when it’s about a pedophile rape cabal of ethno-supremacist billionaires
by Jesselyn Radack and Thomas Drake We are living in an age when exposing the truth is a dangerous, even criminal act. The First Amendment, designed to protect dissent against the government, is being systematically eroded as the United States moves toward authoritarianism, punishing those who reveal inconvenient truths — even
This is Eyewitness for History, a brand new site by Thomas Drake that just launched. This site will serve to seek and speak out on the universal heart of all things through ‘what if’ questions,. as well as providing cogent commentary and reflections on the state of the world as