Has the Beacon of Liberty Become a Searchlight?
By Kelly John Walker | FreedomTalk Magazine, September, 2026, pages 2–3 For 250 years, the United States of America has offered an answer to people fleeing persecution, seeking a fresh start or yearning for unfettered opportunity. Even those brought here in chains—most notably enslaved Africans—or transported under harsh systems of indentured servitude—like the Irish—found advocates […]
In Memory of Boone Cutler
by Dr. Jeffrey Horelick | FreedomTalk Magazine, September 2026 page 5 A First Anniversary Memorial One year after Boone Cutler’s passing, I remember a man whose life cannot be reduced to one title or collaboration. Boone was a United States Army paratrooper, Psychological Operations specialist, broadcaster, author, Warfighter advocate, and Battle Buddy. He took what […]
The Balkanization of America
By Aaron Miller | FreedomTalk Magazine, September 2026 pages 6-8 Realigning our System With its Purpose. There is a popular phrase in systems theory: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” While this is largely applicable to the more objectively based fields of engineering, evaluation, statistics, and so on, it is also very […]
Northern Ireland’s New Culture War Is Coming for America
By A.J. Rice | FreedomTalk Magazine September, 2026 pages 10-12 The new “troubles,” and what it foreshadows for America. Originally published by The American Spectator on September 18, 2026. Reprinted in FreedomTalk with the author’s permission. There are certain conversations that are difficult to have in America because they sound too strange until they happen […]
Nowhere to Run: America offers political sanctuary to everyone …except our own citizens.
By Kelly John Walker | FreedomTalk Magazine September, 2026 pages 14-15 America offers political sanctuary to everyone—except our own citizens. America has long offered refuge to people fleeing political persecution. But what happens when Americans need sanctuary from their own government? I was discussing this question back in 2023, including in a FreedomTalk show with […]
The Presbyterian Rebellion
By Madame Publius | FreedomTalk Magazine September, 2026 pages 16-17 The term Presbyterian Rebellion has been used to emphasize the undeniable influence that the religious clerics of the Revolutionary times had in rallying support for the American Revolution with their sermons. One writer has explained that the American ministers and clergy were referred to as […]
Enough Light for the Step I’m On
FreedomTalk Magazine September, 2026 pages 10-12 It is somehow helpful to me that the Bible is brutally honest about suffering. If Scripture presented something resembling a prosperity gospel worldview—one in which sufficient faith inevitably produces health, wealth, comfort, and success—I would dismiss it out of hand. That simply isn’t the world we inhabit. Instead, the […]
The Lamp of Liberty Runs on American Oil
By Geno Young | FreedomTalk Magazine September, 2026 pages 18-19 “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” Those immortal words, inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, captured America’s promise to the world: a nation where liberty remains available to those willing to respect its laws, embrace its principles, assimilate […]
We Must Not Take the Light of Liberty for Granted
By Mike Arnold | FreedomTalk Magazine September, 2026 pages 14-15 By Mike Arnold As a lifelong student of history, and having traveled to the four corners of the world, I’ve eventually come to realize that, from one very important perspective, the sum total of human history can be defined as a struggle for freedom and […]