Devin Savage

Sunday, 5th of October, 2025 The Noise Is Apparent Munich Airport has now been shut down twice in 48 hours due to drone sightings. Over 6500 passengers stranded. Dozens of flights cancelled or diverted. And European officials are still treating this as an unfortunate inconvenience rather than what it actually is: proof that the continent’s aviation infrastructure cannot account for…

The Lesson We Refuse to Learn I just saw that Kamala Harris came out with a new book. One can assume- I did not read the book- what was in it. I gleaned enough from reviews to know I could not actually sit and read it without needing to take a walk. Thank you – especially- Carlos Lozada. The book-…

The flash floods that swept through Kerr County, Texas, are a cautionary tale about the critical moments when a community’s safety hangs in the balance. It was the early morning of July 4th, a time when most were asleep, when the National Weather Service saw the brewing storm. A critical piece of information here is that there were two workable…

When Sacred Objects Become Tools of Power On the evening of June 1, 2020, Americans witnessed one of the most brazen examples of Cultural Monument manipulation in modern political history. As tear gas still hung in the air from the forcible clearing of peaceful protesters, President Donald Trump strode across Lafayette Square, positioned himself in front of St. John’s Episcopal…

The Enforcers of Cultural Monuments: How Sacred or Elevated Entities Maintain Power Through Their Protectors The Anatomy of Cultural Monument Protection Cultural Monuments do not survive through their inherent value alone—they endure because they possess dedicated enforcers and protectors who treat these monuments as sacred objects worthy of defence. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s allegorical tale “Earth’s Holocaust” provides a masterful examination of…

Understanding the Intersection of Culture, Memory, and Power Defining Cultural Monuments A Cultural Monument is far more than a simple statue, building, or memorial. It represents a deliberate act of cultural memory-making that embodies and perpetuates specific values, narratives, and power structures within society. Unlike traditional monuments that primarily commemorate historical events or figures, Cultural Monuments function as active agents…

Hint: Wandel durch Handel- a fiction that was constructed to make everyone feel better about buying hydrocarbons from an autocratic kleptocracy.  Introduction: The Dope Dealer and the Long Game The Dealer Never Left The Peace Dividend was an illusion. While the West celebrated the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, the efforts to rebuild the Soviet Empire never truly ceased. Unlike…

The terrible consequences of an immature regulatory environment. The massive earthquake that hit Japan’s northeast coast on 11 March 2011 triggered a tsunami that crested as high as 40 meters as the waves smashed into the nation’s coastline. While not every earthquake off the coast of Japan triggers a tsunami, the Tohoku one was exceptionally destructive. As it swept the…