George Cassidy Payne

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Author Bio

George Cassidy Payne is a freelance journalist, poet, and philosophy educator based in Rochester, New York.

October 4, 2025

Loyalty Over Law: Trump’s Ultimatum to the Military

  At Quantico this week, Donald Trump addressed the nation’s top military leaders and delivered a statement that might have sounded like a joke: “If you do not like what I am saying, you can leave…

September 1, 2025

Reclaiming God from Empire: Nonviolence in an Age of Religious Nationalism

I didn’t set out to study nonviolence. Like many, I stumbled upon it in fragments, quotes that refused to leave me, the persistent sense that some ancient wisdom was trying to cut through the noise…

July 22, 2025

The Disappearing Face of Authority

In Los Angeles, they came at night, black helmets, tactical gear, no names, no insignia. Protesters were seized and loaded into unmarked vans. No one knew who they were. No one could ask. Their faces…