Garrett Lee Rutledge
Garrett Rutledge worked in public communication strategy around security and defense issues. He has written for The Herald of Everett, Washington.
America’s Fifth Column Comes to Power
March 2026:Recognize the pattern. What begins as a reset of national politics involving a power-sharing deal with radicals leads to stochastic terrorism that gives way to an entirely new sociopolitical order.
Read Article »Truth in Education
March 2026:We are at the peak of a public education crisis that can no longer be called accidental. Less than half of children in the U.S. are proficiently literate. And the state with the lowest literacy rate is not Mississippi, Louisiana, or Kentucky. It is California, the wealthiest state in the Union by GDP.
Read Article »The Truth about Islam
July 2025:Islam may be history’s most prolific vehicle for cognitive disruption, as Muhammad’s followers only ever went forth to nations outside the Arabian Peninsula to plunder their wealth and force them to submit—yet we are obliged to refer to Islam as a “religion of peace.”
Read Article »Make America Moderate Again
May 2025:The division of American politics into two camps of political thought that are opposed to meaningful dialogue is not just unpatriotic, but a precursor to tyranny.
Read Article »The New Reactionary Right
May 2025:A “woke right,” exemplified by figures like Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson, promotes conspiracy theories and chaos, significantly influencing the MAGA movement and pushing racial and religious nationalism into mainstream discourse.
Read Article »An American Intifada: The Left’s Normalization of Terrorism in the Age of Trump
March 2025:What drove students like Mahmoud Khalil was not a desire to preserve human life and pursue justice in its true sense, but by, in the words of CUAD, a desire to continue terrorizing the students and staff of Columbia “until Zionism ends,” which is to say until the Jewish people have once again been driven from their ancestral homeland.
Read Article »The New Degenerates
January 2025:Progressivism, like all totalitarian ideologies, rejects objective truth, goodness, and beauty, as these concepts limit power. True art transcends political agendas, embracing these timeless values.
Read Article »The New Confederates
September 2024:By placing too much stock in its “big tent” strategy and admitting undeniably anti-American actors to its inner-circle, the Democratic Party is incubating something worse than the Confederates.
Read Article »Offending Islam
August 2024:Rutledge argues that Islam, as it is practiced, is incompatible with Western values, and that Sharia law, when implemented, creates segregated communities that operate outside the jurisdiction of Western law, and that these communities are often hotbeds for anti-Western sentiment. We can counter this threat by promoting Western values.
Read Article »Islamism, Marxism + The West
June 2024:That the left has forgotten that Jews originated in Judea and that every group that arrived in the Roman colony of Palestine during and after the first century should only be regarded as colonial transplants is Orwellian.
Read Article »Islamist Propaganda Colonizes the West
June 2024:The layered approach to conquest taken by Islamism was made possible by Joseph Goebbels and his Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, which made a religion of Nazism in the same way that Islamism disguises its political agenda as a religious one.
Read Article »Pornography in the Age of Gender Confusion
July 2023:Had the feminist movement been honest, it could have quickly achieved greater equality between the sexes without doing away with sexual morality and the kind of modesty that is borne of not wanting to be sexualized.
Read Article »K-ke: A Brief History of Linguistic Anti-Semitism
March 2023:No German, or Western European for that matter, did more to grant anti-Semitism its permanence in the cultures of Western Europe than the German Reformation leader, Martin Luther.
Read Article »Palestinianism as Counter-Myth + Islamist Cloak
September 2022:The truest thing that can be said about Palestinianism is this: if not for Zionism, Palestinianism would not exist—namely, the reconstitution of the national home of the Jewish people. And where Zionism is the spontaneous national liberation movement of a people whose connection to the land predates antiquity and modernity alike, Palestinianism was imposed upon Arabs who resided in what was once the colony of Palestine.
Read Article »A Remembrance of Eternal Truth
July 2022:If nothing comes from nothing, then truth, like matter, must be constant. The pursuit of these constant or unchanging truths is, or should be, the shared cause of philosophy and science as it relates to the physical world.
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