https://americanmind.org/features/the-coronacrisis-and-our-future-discontents/growth-without-virtue/ Fortunately, as the coronavirus meticulously interrupts all aspects of daily life, many regular citizens are beginning to question the wisdom of our current economic arrangement. In quarantined cities, households are beginning to reorganize themselves along traditional lines, even reviving the cottage industries to produce masks and sanitizer. Telecommuters may not want to return to…
Month: August 2020
This Election Is a Choice between Freedom and Slavery, Good and Evil
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/this_election_is_a_choice_between_freedom_and_slavery_good_and_evil.html If it feels as though we’re surrounded, that’s because we are. For freedom-minded Americans, this is an unnerving time. But that’s exactly the way it’s always been. As inspiring as Reagan’s words are, they leave out the chilling context that Lord Acton’s provide: “At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been…
The Pandemic and Practical Wisdom
The dirty little secret of expertise—and of the modern era—is that we expect expertise to rescue us from our disagreements about the good life. We hope that an expanding economic pie (made possible by economic analysis), lengthening lifetimes (promoted by medical science), and expanding liberties will make tradeoffs unnecessary, or at least less urgent. Even…
Patriotism vs. Multiculturalism
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/patriotism-vs-multiculturalism/ by Thomas D. KlingensteinAllen C. GuelzoRoger KimballDavid AzerradMatthew Continetti When he leaves office, whenever that is, we need a more traditional statesman, someone who sees Trump’s value but also his limitations—like Trump, a red-blooded American patriot who has the courage to stand up to the times, but unlike Trump, someone who can articulate the nature…
Defund the Schools Instead of the Police?
The idea is to fund parents instead. Let state legislatures decide the going rate for the education of a K-12-aged child, and then let the parents decide where that child should be educated and how that money should be spent. It’s called school choice. A radical idea? No doubt. But this is a radical idea…
The Original Fascist
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-original-fascist/ From movement to epithet. To engage in these practices in 1922-26 and in 1933-34, Mussolini and Hitler had to change Italy’s and Germany’s basic laws because, although they controlled the government, they did not yet control society’s commanding heights: the judges, schools, businesses, press, and religious establishment. But because the 21st century’s ruling class…
Wokeism is the essence of anarchy.
In the spreading and deepening influence of these converging modes of racial thinking, we are witnessing the demolition of the moral cornerstones of the American polity, foremost including its dedication to natural rights and color-blind justice, and their replacement by a regime that elevates race over humanity. We now confront a faction that, well-meaning or…
How the SAT Killed Civics
The ostensibly most-educated Americans have the worst grasp of basic civics. Why? One place to look is the SAT. State governments impose varying curriculum requirements on public schools, but practically all are beholden to the SAT, which has a near-monopoly on college entry exams. This allows the College Board to dictate what happens in the…