Blog 3 Columns

9 Books to Understand the Collectivist Right 0
- Economics
- September 5, 2017
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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Why Our Education System Failed to Teach that Nazis Are Bad 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
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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University Prof: Freshman Class Achieves 100 Percent Failure Rate on Diagnostic Test 0
- Education
- September 1, 2017
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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The Deep State: How it Came to Be and Why it Fights so Hard 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
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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The Clash of the Hurricane Movements 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
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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Social Justice is ‘Fake Scholarship,’ Oxford Philosopher Says 2
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
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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How Flannery O’Connor Can Heal Our Fractured Politics 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
In 2014, I spoke at the American Embassy in Prague at a symposium on the civil rights movement in America. I made the mistake of offering Flannery O’Connor’s story “Everything that Rises Must Converge” as a reminder that we are all to blame for the mess we’re in. O’Connor says of her own story, “I
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Houston Rescuers Prove the Lie of ‘Toxic Masculinity’0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
Men. We are just the worst, with our toxic masculinity and patriarchal privilege. We are the source of literally all the world’s problems, from war, income inequality, and “rape culture” to the misogynistic microaggressions of “mansplaining” and “manspreading.” If we are ever to create a nonviolent, truly gender-equal world, we must rip away the false,
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Gladiator Emperor on the Good Life: Love God, Love Man 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2017
When asked which commandment was above all others, Christ responded by stating that we are to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves. In other words, to love God and man was the path to a good life. Roughly 135 years later, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, probably made famous to modern Americans by his portrayal
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