The fast and furious rise of the alt-right in Europe, the UK, and the US has caught many people intellectually off-guard. I can speak for myself in this respect. My education and reading prepared me well to understand the statism of the left. My instincts became finely tuned. The threat to liberty from the right
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Last month’s torchlight parade in Charlottesville represented, among other things, the utter failure of modern public education and much of modern public discourse. The Great Lesson The clearest, most consistent message we have received from childhood on up is that “Nazis are evil.” Hitler is cast, over and over again, as our civic religion’s Satan.
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Americans are increasingly haunted by the fear that their schools are dumbing down lessons. This fear intensifies when “college-ready” students enroll in higher education and realize they’re not equipped to keep up with its academic demands. But this situation is not unique to American schools. As a university level instructor recently noted in The Guardian,
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Increasingly, it looks like the political fight isn’t between Republicans and Democrats, but rather the American people against the Deep State. More and more often we are seeing bureaucrats, lobbyists, and elected officials of both parties circle the wagons so to say in an effort to prevent any true reforms of our government. While we
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What is needed in American today are not “hurricane men,” but calm representative figures spread throughout society, who by their example and integrity can lead a nation through the storm and accomplish great things… We have reached a point in our nation’s history where the debate is becoming ever more violent and uncivil. This can
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Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, an English philosopher and writer who specializes in political philosophy and aesthetics, said social justice is changing the very nature of scholarship—and not for the better. “The academy has been invaded by a new form of study,” says Scruton, a senior research fellow at Oxford University, in a recently published
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