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Looking at Rod Dreher from my perch in Germany lends me- at least in part- a certain kinship with him. He left the US for Hungary. I left the US for Germany.

Trump has hit it big. Above and beyond megachurch-pastor huge. But his movement is hollow.

I’ve often thought about what the term ‘conservative’ in America actually means. I’ve come to the conclusion that ‘conservative’ in the modern, American sense describes a person or a group of people who want to drag us back in time. They want to put the shackles back on those who aren’t part of their tribe.

I started my deep dive into the “Russkiy Mir,” a term I would describe as the “Russian Sphere of Influence” on 24th February 2023, exactly one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. An article in the Financial Times had caught my interest- it was published on the 23rd of February, 2023 entitled: “How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled…

What kept me awake on Friday night: The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on a Minneapolis street corner represents more than a tragic incident. It reveals a fundamental design failure in how force is being deployed on American streets—a failure with catastrophic potential that is poised to generate more civilian deaths unless rapidly…

Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025 By Devin Savage I came back to Ohio for the holidays this year, as I do every year to celebrate the holidays with my family. There’s something about returning to the place everyone considers to be ‘home.’ It’s like comfort food- the old routines, old friends, ongoing relationships interrupted by geographic separation and the attention sinkhole…

Photo by Oliver Gargan – Own work. Sunday, Nov 23, 2025 By Devin Savage How California’s housing ‘catastrophe’ previews Ireland’s future – and why the Apple windfall must fund the LUAS before Dublin becomes a city of shoebox apartments. The Collison brothers took their startup Stripe.com to Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator startup incubator in 2010, which was in Silicon Valley…

By Devin Savage There’s a bitter irony in reading David J. Lynch’s recent Washington Post piece about America’s desperate scramble to break free from Chinese rare earth dominance. The Trump administration is now deploying “big-government tools” – ownership stakes, price guarantees, purchase commitments – to undo decades of what Lynch correctly identifies as “the sanguine approach to globalisation that Republicans…

Saturday, 25th of October, 2025 By Devin Savage I was listening to The Economist’s podcast this morning—a publication I respect for its thoughtful analysis—and heard something that caught me by surprise: the host described Trump’s sweeping cuts to scientific research as an attack on “woke ideology.”  Wait. What? Trump is eliminating climate research programs, gutting the EPA’s scientific divisions, defunding…

Wednesday, 22nd of October, 2025 By Devin Savage Published by Karlier LLC | ISBN 979-8-9918828-1-1 This post is intended to allow bots and search engines to ingest content and display in their search results. Book Overview The DNA of Disaster: Catastrophe by Design presents a groundbreaking framework for understanding why catastrophic failures occur in complex human-designed systems. Drawing from extensive…