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January 16, 2020|American history, communism, Howard Zinn, Mary Grabar

Howard Zinn: Fake Historian

by Ronald Radosh|

Howard Zinn speaks at The Progressive's 100th Anniversary Conference in Madison, WI in 2009 (Wikimedia Commons).
Zinn had a different project in mind than most historians. As he wrote, history is “not about understanding the past,” but about “changing the future."

September 4, 2019|Abraham Lincoln, America, American history, Bill McClay, Civic Education, Howard Zinn, Land of Hope, Slavery

An Invitation to the Land of Hope: A Conversation with Bill McClay

by Wilfred M. McClay|

Bill McClay talks with Richard Reinsch about his new book, Land of Hope.

September 12, 2016|elenchus, Howard Zinn, Liberal Education, Socratic method

The Socratic Classroom for an Activist Age

by Alan Gibson|

Socrates roamed the streets of Athens offending. The youth of Athens, who were intoxicated by his bristling brilliance, and drawn to the spectacles he created as he unmasked his fellow Athenians’ claims to knowledge, trailed behind to watch and later imitate him.

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August 14, 2014|2016: Obama's America, America: Imagine a World Without Her, capitalism, Dinesh D'Souza, Howard Zinn, Rule of Law

Delish Dinesh

by Lauren Weiner|

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There’s something deliciously impertinent about Dinesh D’Souza. Watch D’Souza here, facing off against Bill Ayers in front of a full auditorium. He opens with a joke about metal detectors, a sly reference to the bombs Ayres set off in the 1960s. A few minutes later, he skewers Ayres for his cushy trust fund background. Attaboy Dinesh, you’ll be saying, in admiration of his guts and his articulate defense of America.

Debating the A-list celebrities of the Left is one thing; offering a conservative message to mainstream America in a movie is another. The filmmaker had better 1) understand America; and 2) be not just pro-American but an artist—or else he turns into a Rightwing version of other entertaining but tendentious filmmakers like, say, Michael Moore.

D’Souza’s new documentary America: Imagine a World Without Her has apparently out-earned Moore’s Capitalism at the box office.

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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