Multiculturalism Must Die

Multiculturalism Must Die

The war over American inheritance.

Cole Ellison | November 5, 2026

“I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Those words were written by Francis Bellamy in 1892 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage. 134 years after Bellamy wrote these words, this pledge, along with Christopher Columbus, seem almost entirely abandoned.

But that’s not all—Americans have begun to abandon the idea of America, and when you abandon an idea, another will force its way into that space. So, what is filling the void, and how do Americans reclaim what so many have foolishly given up?

America is the culmination of thousands of years of passed-down principles, virtues, traditions, and prejudices that have shaped what modern American minds call Western Civilization. To track these ideas down, it would be a travesty to start anywhere other than Greece—a people who recognized the Kosmos as orderly, believing them to be knowable through rational reasoning. The civilization that took the veil off of the purely mythical and began the journey to science, philosophy, and objective truth. This treasure was the Logos. Yet a radical concept emerged from the greatest thinkers of this time, asserting that human beings possess the capacity for self-government. People are capable of making moral choices and having a hand in their destiny. This is the Telos. And then the principle that a higher objective moral order exists in human nature and that this was separate from any government or any king. This is natural law.

One of the defenders of this inheritance was the Roman Empire. Roman jurisprudence and truly landmark documents like the Magna Carta advanced the ideas that the people graciously inherited. The principle that laws must apply........

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