Brandan P. Buck

I was 18 years old on 9/11. I was a private in Basic Training at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, as fate would have it. I turned 21 at Bagram Air Base. I turned 30 at Kandahar Airfield during my fourth deployment to Afghanistan. I do not take war lightly. My formative years have been steeped in … Continue reading “Why I Won’t Fight”

Much ink has been spilled on the cause of our current American malaise. Immigration, race, integration, and economics have been bandied about as causes for our current political strife. However, all of these are insufficient to explain our current political and cultural turmoil. More than any other single factor, the economic, geographic, and racial disparities … Continue reading “Bear Any Burden: Military Sacrifice and Rise of American Populism”