December 7, 2021 is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into World War II. It is one of many days in the American year that inspire reflection on the most violent and determinative human event: war—and the art of war that aims to control and direct that most uncontrollable human undertaking.
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“Tocqueville reflected that administrative centralization would lead to ‘administrative despotism’—a distant, all-powerful, central government, beyond control, managing the minute details of the lives of every individual.”

“Above all her
accomplishments, she always considered her life’s finest achievement providing the best education available to her three sons and two daughters—the kind of education which she hoped would equip them to perpetuate the great American Revolution.”

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The American Story is a production by Chris Flannery of the Claremont Institute.