With the turn of the new year, The Last American Vagabond has taken some time to elaborate on a few of the concepts that together encompass the inner mechanisms of the human mind, including rehabilitative neuroplasticity; the idea of a postmodern perennialism. This concept investigates recurring themes in all schools of thought throughout religion, science, and philosophy, and an Read More…
Expand Your Mind…
A compilation of in-depth research articles for those seeking to expand their minds and open themselves to a different point of view. Each topic is researched by one of our journalists over the course of an extended period of time, using both open source investigative information and archived documentation on the subject, in order to provide an objective view on many different subjects that are rife with controversy and or contrasting perspectives. The goal is to provide some clarity on these subjects and allow the reader a base from which to develop one’s one perspective and initiate one’s own research.
Fearless Ink – The Unofficial Crusade of Nearly 70 Murdered Journalists in 2015
“If this was true, it meant the ante was being upped drastically. When cops declare open season on journalists, when they feel free to declare any scene of unlawful protest a free fire zone, that will be a very ugly day – and not just for journalists.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, April 1971 The business Read More…
Prisca Theologia – The Perennial Thread of Ancient Wisdom
The current Age of Information has brought about a drastic and notable split in the trifecta of thought that creates the human intellect. These three pieces, Science, Religion, and Philosophy, continue to argue that they are all mutually exclusive, yet have never been able to exist apart from each other. In today’s postmodern era there Read More…
Climate Change: A Call To Explore What’s Real And What’s Not
There is no escaping it, climate change is a hot topic that is appearing everywhere in today’s culture with no signs of disappearing. It is as polarizing an issue as there is, dividing the public into various types of belief systems. There are so many factors at play in this subject matter that one can Read More…
Operation Enduring Freedom: The United States Opium Trade
The illegal occupation of Afghanistan has fallen off the media’s main stage in recent years, yet it remains one of the longest and debatably one of the most botched military operations in US history. Aside from the continued US presence, there remains an unaccountable and unjustifiable amount military contractors of which the Pentagon cannot explain. Those contractors now Read More…
From Trauma to Transcendence Through Neuroplasticity
“Neurons that fire together, wire together,” Dr. Max Cynader puts it, and it’s difficult to come across a more pertinent adage in today’s era. Discussion of neurons firing and wiring draws implications so vast that it impacts everything from positive and negative emotional spectrums, to the difference between being handicapped, and a genius–or life and Read More…






