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Stolen Youth and the “Power of the Powerless”
In "Stolen Youth: How Radicals are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation," Bethany Mandel and New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz detail the alarming shifts toward ideological indoctrination in education…
by Michael Watson on March 15, 2023

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Waging a Good War: Tortured Thesis
Those with little or no background in that history can gain it from Waging a Good War. The writing isn’t awful when it sticks to the story, rather than the…
by Ken Braun on March 11, 2023

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Waging a Good War: He Is Writing This Because . . .
Rick's military history approach comes off as just a vehicle to score some historical and contemporary points. For example, he wrote, “The same antidemocratic faction of American life that opposed…
by Ken Braun on March 11, 2023

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Waging a Good War: The Army of One
The clumsy military clichés and analogies in Waging a Good War also caused Ricks to veer into incongruous criticisms of the individuals who waged the good war. In one example,…
by Ken Braun on March 11, 2023

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The Never-Ending Crises of the West
How to Save the West, the debut book from Claremont Institute editor and podcast host Spencer Klavan, sets itself an impossible task with its title—one its author tacitly admits in…
by Michael Watson on February 22, 2023

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Revisiting Contemporary Philanthropy as Part of a First Estate “Clerisy”
The current equivalent of America’s First Estate clerisy, including that of it in establishment philanthropy, should self-awarely take cognitive-elite note of and understand the contemporary rise of this populist anti-establishment…
by Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann on January 27, 2023

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America and the Art of the Possible and Philanthropy
"America and the Art of the Possible" broadly sketches how American elites have prospered while the middle class has stagnated during the past half century—calling into serious question what at…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 23, 2023

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A Love Letter to the Justice System: Senator Ted Cruz’s Justice Corrupted
"Justice Corrupted" is a love letter of sorts to the American justice system by way of examining how and when it’s suffered abuse at the hands of politicians, left and…
by Sarah Lee on December 13, 2022

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Kick Up Some Dust by Bernie Marcus
One of the best ways donors can preserve their intentions is to make their intentions as explicit as possible. The more a donor says about his ideas and passions, the…
by Martin Morse Wooster† on December 1, 2022

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Agency: Giving Kids and Their Caregivers Hope for the Future
Ian Rowe is an optimist, and that shines through in his new book, "Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their…
by Sarah Lee on October 4, 2022