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  • The Democrats’ Refounding of America

    By Christopher Caldwell - Aug 13, 2020

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    Principles of Government · August 13, 2020 ·

    SELECTED PASSAGES …But progressives have begun to describe the country that existed before the 1960s as not just flawed but outright illegitimate—and Democrats are following their lead.  In this view, the civil rights movement wasn’t just a reform but a refounding. That is what makes the anointing of John Lewis as a “Founding Father” …so… Read More

    These excerpts are included to illustrate how the left is transforming our culture, our politics, and our society by outflanking the democratic process through the courts.

    Filed Under: Articles, Education, Culture, Ideology, Federal Agencies and Administrative Law, Politics, Political Parties, Election Regulations, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    America’s Right Confronts the 21st Century

    By Christopher DeMuth - Nov. 18, 2022

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    Principles of Government · November 24, 2022 ·

    Christopher DeMuth’s near perfect aspirational agenda to conserve the American nation.
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    Re-establish national borders, reduce our million plus annual illegal entries to zero, and calibrate lawful immigration to the needs of cultural assimilation, social harmony and economic growth
    Abolish all official racial and other group preferences, quotas and gerrymanders
    Liberate the energy sector
    Return to a balanced federal budget outside of wars and other emergencies
    Redirect federal spending from personal entitlements and income transfers to public goods such as national defense, basic research and infrastructure
    Withdraw the collective-bargaining privileges of public-employee unions
    Institute stable currency—not today’s official goal of 2% that quintuples prices in a lifetime, but zero.
    Universal school choice
    Initiatives to mobilize science and enterprise to dominate China in advanced computation, communication and weaponry and to repatriate production of national essentials
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    Filed Under: Articles, Education, Culture, Ideology, Politics, Political Parties, Election Regulations

    Defend America’s History—and Retake Its Institutions

    By Gerard Baker - Jul 6, 2020

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    Principles of Government · July 6, 2020 ·

    SELECTED PASSAGES …At the end of the 20th century, the U.S. had won World War II and the Cold War, liberated half the planet from history’s most dehumanizing ideologies, advanced a free-market capitalism that had led more humans out of poverty than any economic system ever devised, and given the world the richest bounty of… Read More

    This article also warns of how the effort to distort our history and the domination of the left in higher education is changing our culture, our politics, and our society.

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    The American Experiment Is on Life Support

    By Andrew A. Michta - Oct 26, 2020

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    Principles of Government · October 26, 2020 ·

    SELECTED  PASSAGES … ‘Death to America!” is a common refrain from antifa rioters from Portland, Ore., to Kenosha, Wis. … Neither political party has been willing or able to end this anarchy. Extremism becomes more entrenched in American politics with each passing day. These acts of violence encapsulate five decades of neo-Marxist indoctrination in American schools,… Read More

    Neo-Marxists on the street and in institutions want to erase their opponents and deconstruct the country.

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    Higher Ed and the Fragmentation of America

    By Orrin Hatch - Jul 27, 2020

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    Principles of Government · October 5, 2020 ·

    SELECTED  PASSAGES  …Somewhere between the rise of cable news and social media, our shared sense of reality splintered. We live in an era of endless political narratives, in which the phrase “my truth” is supposed to be taken seriously. .. Americans today cannot agree on the existence of facts, let alone what the facts are…. Read More

    This article is included to draw attention to the grave problem of the left’s domination of higher education and its profound influence on our culture, our politics, and our society in ways that threaten our future.

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    Higher Education’s Deeper Sickness

    By John M. Ellis - Nov. 13, 2017

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    Principles of Government · June 24, 2022 ·

    Colleges need to be accredited; state universities answer to governing boards. Accrediting agencies and governing boards are created through a political process. What if voters were to insist that those agencies demand answers to some elementary questions? For example: How can a department of political science that excludes half the spectrum of viable political ideas be competent to offer degrees in the field? How can a history curriculum be taught competently when only one extremist attitude to social and political questions is present in a department? How can a campus humanities faculty with the same limitation teach competently? How can these extraordinary deficiencies deserve either accreditation, or support by state and federal funds? Read More

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    The 2022 Midterm Election Endangers Democrats, Not Democracy

    By Gerard Baker - Nov. 7, 2022

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    Principles of Government · November 10, 2022 ·

    …This isn’t complacency. We’re all familiar with the role eternal vigilance plays in the defense of liberty. But it is central to understanding how dishonest and hypocritical the closing Democratic argument in these midterm elections is. It is, after all, the Democrats themselves who have become the most insistent evangelists for the idea that the very system that has protected American democracy for two centuries is not fit for its purpose.

    It is the progressive left—with the ready endorsement of the top figures in the Democratic Party—that wants to dismantle many of the most important constitutional institutions and principles that protect American democracy: states’ rights, the separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary, due process and the enforcement of the rule of law.

    This isn’t some fringe view or even merely a cynical attempt to remake the system for political advantage. The party is in the grip of an ideology that believes the entire American constitutional construct is illegitimate; that the Constitution itself was founded to preserve a hideous racial tyranny, and therefore that all those quaint ideas enumerated in it that have become synonymous with America’s republican democracy—equal rights and protection, freedom of speech—are all merely instruments of repression…. Read More

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    The Captive Mind and America’s Resegregation

    By Andrew Michta - Jul 31, 2020

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    Principles of Government · July 31, 2020 ·

    SELECTED PASSAGES Czesław Miłosz…wrote, “The Captive Mind… in 1953, to warn the West of what happens to the human mind and soul in a totalitarian system.  Miłosz knew from experience, having lived through the Communist takeover, how totalitarianism strips men and women of their liberty, transforming them into “affirmative cogs” in service of the state… Read More

    This article warns of how the effort to distort our history and the domination of the left in higher education is changing our culture, our politics, and our society.

    Filed Under: Articles, Education, Culture, Ideology

    America Needs History and Civics Education to Promote Unity

    By Lamar Alexander, Arne Duncan, John King, Rod Paige, Richard Riley and Margaret Spellings - Mar 1, 2021

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    Principles of Government · May 17, 2021 ·

    …the world’s oldest constitutional democracy is in grave danger. We stand at a crossroads, called to protect this democracy and to work toward unity. Current and future generations will look back to examine how we chose to act, and why.
    A key part of our task is to reinvigorate teaching and learning of American history and civics in our nation’s schools. A constitutional democracy requires a citizenry that has a desire to participate, and an understanding of how to do so constructively… Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Education, Culture, Ideology

    Liberal Arts, Free Expression, and the Demosthenes-Feynman Trap

    By Robert J. Zimmer

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    Principles of Government · January 13, 2023 ·

    University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer delivers remarks upon accepting the 2017 Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education. He spoke of how the “openness of universities to divergent and clashing ideas, to analytic debate, to rigor, and to questioning, is a critical ingredient in illuminating societal, scientific, and humanistic issues.” President Zimmer stressed that because “universities are virtually unique in making this long-term contribution only highlights their importance to society.” The award was presented on October 20, 2017. Read More

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