CATEGORY: CONSERVATISM (13 MIN)

Country, not collective

Last week, we discussed the National Conservatism UK Conference, which saw many Britons discuss the best ways to reclaim their country from leftist forces. One of the most pressing specters that haunts the UK is globalism, and more specifically, the continued pressure of continental homogeny in the form of the European Union.

ISI board member and president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, targeted this issue in his speech at the conference, reprinted in The American Mind. Roberts tells his audience about the origin of the globalist movement: the very prosperity that resulted from successful past nationalism.

In critiquing progressive globalism, Roberts relies on the work of Edmund Burke, drawing particularly on Burke’s criticism of those that would destroy national identity and culture. Roberts attacks the elites’ destruction of the family, of religion, of true education, and of freedom during the pandemic.

Roberts ends with a call for the Conservative Party to find a way to use its power to preserve the national character of the UK and defeat this progressive influence. Their best asset, according to Roberts? The family—Burke’s “little platoon.”

Discover Roberts’ full speech right here.

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Because our student editors and writers are bravely bringing conservative ideas to their campuses, we’re highlighting their efforts here.

Any Person, Too many Studies via The Cornell Review
“The liberal arts are on life support. The quest to STEM-ify all higher education (especially but not exclusively) at Cornell is apparent in every action the administration takes.”

Why NC Needs Age Verification for Adult Websites via The Free Pack
“It was also made clear that pornography usage leads to difficulty in maintaining and forming intimate relationships all while promoting harmful sexual behaviors.”

CATEGORY: GOVERNMENT (23 MIN)

The few, the progress

The irony of the leftist brain trust for the past few decades should not be lost on anyone. It consists of a small, elite, wealthy group of individuals (in America and in the UK) who claim they stand for the poor and the general populace. They are, essentially, an oligarchy.

For this week’s Intercollegiate Review archive, Glenn Ellmers takes aim at this oligarchy. He believes that the leftist elite has dampened the joy of entrepreneurship and glorified mere entertainment in its place. They have replaced the Constitution with the “graven image of Progress.”

Ellmers then uses the works of philosophers such as Aristotle to develop measured but strong responses to the threat of the rule of a progressive few. He does not think the country is so far gone that these oligarchs cannot be stopped.

“The brainwashing by the hard left is exasperatingly resilient. Yet to suggest that it is permanent or irrevocable would seem to deny human nature,” Ellmers writes.

Ellmers calls us to a vigorous defense of the values our Founding Fathers fought for. Read his in-depth essay right here.

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