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CATEGORY: MODERN CULTURE (10 min)
** The Frontline Victims of Woke Ideology ([link removed])
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What do you think the worst part of wokeism is?
According to Victor Davis Hanson, it isn’t how wrong the ideology is . . .
It’s that it is terribly cruel.
Hanson, who was just announced the winner of
ISI’s 2022 Conservative Book of the Year award ([link removed]) for The Dying Citizen, takes those progressive elites to task ([link removed]) in his latest piece for American Greatness:
“Wokeism’s natural logic is to destroy the lives of people of both genders, of all races, and—if need be—those of every age, all to leverage an otherwise unworkable ideological agenda.”
Wokeism doesn't hurt the Tesla drivers of Cupertino. . .
Nor the suits on Madison Avenue. Nor the ivory-tower ideologues. These people have the capital to survive wokeism (and exploit it).
So, who are the real victims? Read about them
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Victor Davis Hanson is one of the sharpest conservative thinkers of our time. If you would like the chance to hear him at this year's Conservative Book of the Year Award Dinner, you can reserve your spot here ([link removed]) .
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CATEGORY: AMERICAN POETRY (17 min)
** The Poe You Don't Know ([link removed])
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Some people say Edgar Allan Poe was a drunken proto-goth who penned ghost stories out of his twisted imagination. . .
And these people are wrong. So very wrong, argues David Gosselin ([link removed]) in The Imaginative Conservative.
The darkness in Poe’s stories has been misinterpreted by the modernists through a lens that sees art as “the surviving message of despair from the shipwrecked.”
Poe believed in and strove after the opposite: to uncover in us an “immortal instinct” that longs after the sublime.
He understood great art to be timeless—rooted in human nature—and indispensable to the moral formation of citizens.
If your memory of Poe doesn’t extend beyond “The Raven” or “The Tell-Tale Heart,” you need to read Gosselin's piece ASAP.
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Because our student editors and writers are bravely bringing conservative ideas to their campuses, we’re highlighting their efforts here.
Cornell Law Professor Sues to stop state’s discriminatory therapeutic guidelines ([link removed]) via the Cornell Review
The March for Life: The Ideal of Protests ([link removed]) via the Michigan Review
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CATEGORY: THE ECONOMY (21 min)
** Recovering the Humane Economy ([link removed])
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For this week’s archive pull ([link removed]) we take you all the way back . . . to Monday.
Many believed that economic advances in the 20th century would lead to a period of unfettered happiness for the American people . . .
. . . But as time's gone on, that isn’t exactly how things have unfolded.
What is a humane economy?
In an
Editor's Note ([link removed]) from our latest issue of Modern Age, Samuel Hammond, Andy Smarick, Helen Andrews, and Modern Age Editor-in-Chief Dan McCarthy examine the roots of the rise of social decay, personal unhappiness, the collapse of the middle class, and the rise of China as a global economic power.
Did conservatives miss the mark on what a good economy is and what a good economy is for?
Are there conservative solutions that can help us recover a humane economy? Or, is it already too late?
Read the
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UPCOMING EVENTS ([link removed])
** ISI's Second Annual Homecoming Weekend: May 13-14, Wilmington Delaware ([link removed])
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Will we see you at Homecoming Weekend ([link removed]) ?
Last year's inaugural event definitely lived up to its name—our beautiful 20-acre campus was buzzing with the energy of intelligent discussions and the vibrant community that ISI is known for.
And this year, we're doubling down to create an even greater experience for faculty, students, alumni, and friends of ISI.
You’re invited to
join us ([link removed]) as we gather once again at ISI's main campus near Wilmington, Delaware on May 13—14 for our second annual Homecoming Weekend.
Highlights of Homecoming Weekend include:
* A Friday night dinner at Wilmington’s historic Hotel du Pont honoring the winner of ISI’s 2022 Conservative Book of the Year award, Victor Davis Hanson for his book The Dying Citizen
* Additional Saturday Reunion Luncheons for Graduate Fellows; Honors Scholars and Society Leaders; and Collegiate Network Editors, Interns, and Fellows past and present to reconnect with their ISI friends
* Our ISI reunion conference Saturday afternoon featuring panels on the purpose of the liberal arts and the future of higher ed
* Saturday evening reception featuring food, live music, and dancing on ISI’s campus
This is your chance to experience what ISI has to offer as the top resource for conservative education and community.
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“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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