The American Mind’s Weekly Digest

FEATURES

Retrieving Education The Editors

Inez Feltscher looks at the sorry state of American education before and during the pandemic, asking what can be done moving forward. Nathaniel Fischer, Zachary Rogers, and Daniel D. Buck respond. Read

ESSAYS

The Limits of Expertise Andrew Busch

COVID-19 revealed what fools we have made of ourselves. Read

Red November Peachy Keenan

Don’t let the commies win. Read

Covid Can't Kill Our Way of Life Kassy Dillon

Nationalist localism—unlike globalism—survives the virus. Read

The Vanguard of Record John Fonte

Woke identity politics is liberalism’s successor ideology—from the New York Times on down. Read

POSTS

Stand Up, Republicans Thomas D. Klingenstein and Ryan P. Williams

A Statement from the Claremont Institute. Read

Triumph of the Oligarchs Joel Kotkin

A new class of overlords are making their bid for world domination. Read

Has the Church Given Up on this World? Auguste Meyrat

It’s leftists, not Christians, who should be accused of fatalism. Read

Exodus from the Zone Present Witness

I will arise and go now. Read

Ideas Don't Have Consequences Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse

Why conservatives keep losing. Read

The Revolutionary Elite Eats Their Own Rep. Jim Banks

This isn’t a proletarian revolution. This is a generational fight within our ruling elite class. Read

PODCAST

'The Roundtable' Episode #24 ‌

With the coronavirus surging again, Daddy Newsom rises to the fore as Karen-in-Chief--shutting down businesses across California, closing beaches, and banning fireworks just in time for the 4th. Meanwhile, CHAZ/CHOP is no more, scuppered after CHOP’s armed private security executed a young man. Plus: Columbus, Ohio removes a statue of Christopher Columbus while GOP senators work to abolish Columbus Day, which only serves to show their complete fecklessness and inability to grasp the underlying issues. Listen

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