This week’s Intercollegiate Review brings you looks at the past and the Fourth of July.
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CATEGORY: HISTORY (12 min)
** The Forgotten Founder You Need to Read ([link removed])
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This Founding Father played an instrumental role in shaping the First Amendment . . . warned against factions and uneducated citizens . . . and died on the 4th of July.
Think you know him?
Think again.
Writing in The American Conservative, Stephen B. Tippins Jr. introduces you ([link removed]) to the life and thought of Fisher Ames—one of our nation’s first, most brilliant, and unjustly forgotten conservative statesmen.
A leading Federalist and Massachusetts congressman, Ames “displayed more promise than perhaps any of our other great statesmen.”
He was deeply skeptical about democracy with its potential to be “licentious and mobbish.”
And he wrote movingly and well on the role of government in cultivating a virtuous, patriotic citizenry.
He’s a thinker today’s anti-government conservatives need to heed, Tippins argues.
If we forget why men leave the state of nature . . . or what our democratic natures tend toward . . . we risk the national crises that Ames forewarned ([link removed]) .
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CATEGORY: CULTURE (5 min)
** The Destruction of the Temple ([link removed])
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A woman named Jewel Shuping hired a psychologist to pour drain cleaner into her perfectly healthy eyes.
Why? Because she “identified” as blind . . . and sought “treatment” for her “Body Integrity Identity Disorder.”
In First Things, Bethel McGrew asks the obvious question ([link removed]) : Is that a crime?
It certainly looks like medical malpractice—a doctor irresponsibly and irrevocably mutilating the body of a mentally sick person.
But that leads us straight down the most dangerous of rabbit holes ([link removed]) . . .
Namely: if such physician-assisted mutilation is criminal . . . how exactly is it different from sex transition surgery?
An awful lot of people—even conservatives—“take a laissez-faire approach to adult sex changes.”
But as the medical profession rushes vulnerable adults and even children into irreversible bodily destruction, McGrew argues, laissez-faire isn’t good enough.
“We must not be silent, ([link removed]) ” she declares.
Do you agree?
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** American Economic Forum: July 29-30, Washington, D.C. ([link removed])
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For a limited time, students register for free. And if you’re under 30, weekend tickets are only $50.
You’ll hear panel discussions on a range of important topics, including: cronyism in the administrative state, China geonomics, big tech censorship, woke capital, middle-class prosperity, and more.
This is a conversation you don’t want to miss.
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CATEGORY: CONSERVATIVE HISTORY (6 min)
** Faith of Our Founders ([link removed])
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The faith of our Founding Fathers has been a source of controversy for quite some time. With the overturning of Roe, we hear new calls for “the separation of church and state.”
But what did that mean to our country's founders?
You might be surprised to learn that their concept of the “separation of church and state” is different than the modern version. Find out more in the Faith of Our Founders ([link removed]) by Mark David Hall.
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Thought of the Day:
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“We live only now. Everything else is either passed or unknown.”
—Marcus Aurelius
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