CATEGORY: BOOK REVIEW (7 min)
The Dying Citizen is not here to cheer you up. It’s here to warn you.
Writing in The Imaginative Conservative, Chuck Chalberg reviews Victor Davis Hanson’s latest opus, and it leaves him shaken.
Hanson lucidly lays out how “the forces arrayed against real citizens—and against the idea of citizenship—are powerful indeed.”
The tribalism of identity politics . . .
. . . the rise of the administrative state . . .
. . . and the lure of a globalist agenda all threaten to replace real citizenship with chaos.
What would a post-citizenship America be like? Just look at California where there's “a class of the well-to-do and the very well-to-do, and a class of the poor and very poor.”
Chalberg’s review shows you why Hanson fears we are moving towards “a strangely medieval America” . . . and who The Dying Citizen’s unexpected villain really is.
Read it here—and if you haven't already, make sure you register for this year's Conservative Book of the Year Award on May 13th to hear Hanson discuss this prescient work.
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CATEGORY: LIBERTY (3 min)
What's the true source of freedom?
Kurt Hofer embarked on the First Things Intellectual Retreat to dig into that question.
It’s a pressing question. Today’s societies “are awash in grand promises of freedom” yet “possess no deep insights” into its nature.
Hofer reports back with wisdom culled from Tocqueville, Milton, Josef Pieper, Rabbi Heschel and more.
One secret source of freedom? To understand that it “comes not from permission but from commitment . . .
. . . and that, as Tocqueville teaches us, “We’re free when we’re together”—bound in association, not simply free to roam.
You might find his discussion of the Sabbath particularly interesting. How can a day that constrains our choices open up new vistas of meaning?
Plus, he gives you some great books to begin your own exploration of the nature of freedom.
Give it a read!
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Because our student editors and writers are bravely bringing conservative ideas to their campuses, we’re highlighting their efforts here.
‘Romanticize Your Life’ Tik Tok Trend Is a Gen Z Rejection Of Postmodernism via the Chicago Thinker
If You’re On the Fence About Talking About Your Beliefs: A Message to Undergrads via the Rambler Review
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CATEGORY: CULTURE (4 min)
“Beauty will save the world.”
If you know that quotation, you probably appreciate great art and culture.
If you know who said it, you’re obviously a nerd. (We love it.)
But it’s one thing to appreciate great art and culture. It’s quite another to understand what makes it and how to preserve it.
So we consulted a painter.
Creation, Not Consumption
In this week’s Intercollegiate Review essay, painter Michael J. Pearce explains the conservative’s role in culture, and what conservative art can look like. Read it to learn:
- The agreement conservatives have with past and future generations
- The relationship between created works and those who enjoy them
- What conservative art looks like today
If you’re a conservative who appreciates the arts and culture, this guide is for you.
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Don't miss your chance to hear Victor Davis Hanson at this year's Conservative Book of the Year Award—part of our second annual Homecoming Weekend!
You’re invited to join us as we gather once again at ISI's main campus near Wilmington, Delaware, on May 13—14 for our second annual Homecoming Weekend . . .
And if you're under 30, tickets are only $50!
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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“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.”
—Michel de Montaigne
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