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Preserving the American Way of Life
Making multiculturalism the enemy provides a big opportunity for Republicans. Opposing multiculturalism, like slavery and Communism before it, has the potential to energize the Republican party and the conservative movement. Conservatives, who are in the business of conserving things, come to life when there is something important to conserve. This allows them to stake out…
American Foreign Policy and the Failure of Reason
By William Smith|May 26th, 2020
Old Man Eloquent
In a famous 1893 speech, he said: “Men talk of the Negro problem. There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have honesty enough, loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their Constitution.” Or as W. E. B. Du Bois put it in The Souls of Black Folk: Douglass…
How to Bring Millennials Back to Church
By Louis Markos|May 30th, 2020
But what is ultimately called for in modern public discourse is not mere humility, but magnanimity, which literally means having a “large spirit,” or a “great soul.” The fortunate among us have known at least one such person with a great soul—that person who never gossips, who appears not to see faults in others, overlooking,…
Prudence and Pandemics: The lesson of this pandemic is prudence; we have not been prudent.
Although often associated with the free market because it is the free market that produces the wealth that can corrupt, lack of prudence has little to do with economic systems as opposed to culture and historical experience. Given so many variables, one very rough proxy for cultural prudence can be derived from saving and borrowing…
The Speech That Changed the World
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-speech-that-changed-the-world/ The House Divided speech, however, was—perhaps more than any political address of the time — a causal agent in bringing about the terrible events over which Lincoln was destined to preside. Its theme is expressed in the biblical admonition that “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” In it Lincoln declared that he believed that…