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    By Matthew Hennessey -June 30, 2025

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    Principles of Government · September 6, 2025 ·

    By Matthew Hennessey – In this twilight struggle the truth has an advantage: Socialism is incompatible with human nature. People are driven to build, to invest, to strive and be productive, to pursue their own families’ well-being above all. Socialism subverts these impulses. It requires coercion to achieve anything resembling success. It’s an intellectual lab leak. Misery follows wherever it’s tried.

    Yet each generation somehow produces naïfs who are certain that collectivism is the true longing of the human heart. …The young voters who supported Mr. Mamdani were primed by their expensive educations to buy his line that capitalism is rigged in favor of the rich. All they’ve ever been told—by teachers, professors, TV and TikTok—is that markets are inhumane. 

    This is a failure of education, yes. Basic economics is rarely taught in high school or required in college. But it’s equally a failure of public relations.  Read More

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    By Mitch McConnell – The Constitution vests each branch of the federal government with an exclusive power, responsive to the people in elections. In each branch, liberals seek to remove that power from democratic accountability and vest it in unelected bureaucrats.  Read More

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    By Daniel Shuchman - Aug. 5, 2025

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    Principles of Government · August 30, 2025 ·

    Mr. Kors lamented that socialism had yet to be held accountable for the scale of its crimes: “No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents and more orphans than socialism with power.” The failure to acknowledge and come to terms with this reality in the West, he believed, eventually would allow socialism to resuscitate itself, even with millions of skeletons hiding in plain view. Read the article Read More

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    By John Ellis June 16, 2025

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    Principles of Government · August 29, 2025 ·

    By John Ellis – … shutting down woke programs goes only so far; it limits what bad actors in academia can do, but it leaves those bad actors in place.

    Without broader staffing reforms, radical left-wing professors will still control higher education. Several states are trying to dictate what professors should and shouldn’t teach, but these efforts similarly don’t reach the core of academia’s sickness—the political monopoly that guarantees its continued malignancy. Read More

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    Decline and Fall of America? Not Yet

    By David Mamet - Nov. 22, 2024

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    Principles of Government · August 26, 2025 ·

    By David Mamet – The mythic hero is aided by the Word of God, contemporary Westerners by heroic example. Winston Churchill inspired in his country’s populace an awareness of their own greatness. So does Mr. Trump.

    Yet half of America not only abides but fervently supports a codependent decline to poverty, crime and a nascent police state. Why? The leftist politicians and their media courtiers and designated beneficiaries profited from the perks of power. But why did the everyday American endorse them and their fear mongering? The actual threat wasn’t global warming, Islamophobia, the Supreme Court, the police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Mr. Trump. It was exclusion from the herd. Read More

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    Characteristics of Government

    • INTRODUCTION
    • SOCIALISM
    • COMPETITION
    • DEMOCRACY AND VOTING
    • SOCIAL POLICIES EFFECTS ON DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
    • GOALS OF PROGRESSIVISM AND THE MODERN LEFT
    • EVOLVING IDEOLOGIES
    • DEMOCRACIES AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

    Principles of Government

    • INTRODUCTION
    • CITIZENSHIP
    • BELIEF SYSTEM
    • GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
    • FISCAL POLICIES
    • SOCIAL POLICIES
    • FREE MARKETS AND REGULATION
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