AMERICANTHINKER - Lessons unlearned: A Fourth of July plea for the rebirth of freedom and sanity
By Eric Utter The country was founded on courage -- sheer, almost preposterous -- courage.
THEFEDERALIST (Casey Chalk) - Reading Good Literature Can Help Restore America’s Civic Virtue
Americans don’t read literature much any more. I sense, perhaps, a collective shrug from many — who cares if Americans don’t read fiction? Those who favor republican government should care. Reading is a marker of the relative health of a democratic society.
AMERICANTHINKER - Countering the argument for reparations
No amount of handouts can alter a mindset that rejects prudent individual agency, which is the actual key to success and prosperity.
AMERICANTHINKER - Leaving Kierkegaard
American Thinker It’s time we outgrow the 19th-century philosopher who, in his own way, presaged post-modern views about Christianity.
AMERICANGREATNESS (Roger Kimball) - Conservatism’s Case for Cheerful Realism
I have been thinking a lot about narrative formation, about how the taken-for-granted atmosphere of opinion forms and diffuses such that tout le monde internalizes […] Source
AI:Roger Kimball examines the formation of cultural narratives and argues for a philosophy of cheerful realism within conservatism to counter the pervasive atmosphere of pessimism or despair often found in modern political discourse.Open