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CATEGORY: CONSERVATISM (25 min)


** Flaws That Shed Light ([link removed])
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Donald Trump didn’t “Build That Wall” after 2016. But what he did do was tear down that wall about who or what counts as “conservative.” ([link removed])

Writing in First Things, ISI’s Daniel McCarthy sizes up two recent books that sift through the rubble and attempt to stake out conservatism’s contours today:

* Matthew Continetti’s The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism; and
* Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism: A Rediscovery.


These books cover some similar territory, McCarthy writes, but in many ways they’re complete opposites . . .

. . . in their stances concerning classical liberalism and its role in the American founding . . . and in their diagnoses of what the right must do today.

McCarthy examines the “serious flaws” ([link removed]) of each work. But, he writes,

“Those flaws are the flaws of conservatism itself, in either its liberalism-preserving mode or its attempt to maintain modernity’s constitutional traditions while escaping the constraints of modernity’s moral and economic conditions.”

So you’d do well to familiarize yourself with those flaws. Learn from them.

And then take up the most difficult task of all ([link removed]) : “Thinking seriously about what the political right wants, and what it can achieve.”
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CATEGORY: CULTURE WAR (9 min)


** The moral backsliding is appalling ([link removed])
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Remember when conservative politicians boldly defended traditional marriage?

Only seven years ago, Republican congressmen denounced Obergefell in no uncertain terms: The Supreme Court was trampling marriage, state laws, and Constitutional processes.

Today, writes Tony Perkins in The Daily Signal, it seems like the Republican Party has “moved on.” ([link removed])

The culture wars are only heating up, and an increasing number of Republican congressmen are either voting for same-sex marriage . . . or remaining conspicuously silent on the bill.

“What’s changed?” asks Perkins:

“Certainly not the significance of marriage—or the Constitution. Not the party’s platform or the role of states’ rights . . . What’s changed is that we have a Republican Party willing to go to the mat for sports but seemingly unwilling to stand up for an institution whose redefinition has ignited a firestorm of persecution in America.”

Make no mistake, he writes. The fight over marriage is “ ([link removed]) at the bitter root” ([link removed]) of battles over gender ideology, drag queen story hour, and trans athletes in girls’ locker rooms.

If Republican politicians are no longer willing to contest this ground . . . the future looks grim.
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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.

Because our student editors and writers are bravely bringing conservative ideas to their campuses, we’re highlighting their efforts here.

Georgetown Mask Mandate Ignores Public Health Consensus ([link removed])
via Georgetown Review

Tennessee judge halts Biden LGBTQ order, Cornell unaffected ([link removed]) via The Cornell Review

CATEGORY: RUSSELL KIRK (31 min)


** On Ideology and the Moral Imagination ([link removed])
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Writing in Modern Age, Edward E. Ericson, Jr. reflects on ([link removed]) the thought and influence of Solzhenitsyn and Russell Kirk.

Ericson was a scholar of Solzhenitsyn and no acolyte of Kirk, but he admits that “reading Kirk prepared me to appreciate Solzhenitsyn.”

He draws out two key concepts in depth: “ideology” and “the moral imagination.”

Kirk and Solzhenitsyn both understand “ideology” as any doctrine that usurps with human explanation the hidden and divine truth of the world. And it’s immensely powerful in its capacity to justify evil. Ericson calls The Gulag Archipelago “a sustained argument against ideology, heavily seasoned with examples.”

And the moral imagination ([link removed]) ? It’s “the principal possession that man does not share with the beasts.”

As you consider the future of conservatism in our troubled age, these thinkers will provide you with a feast for thought ([link removed]) .
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Thought of the Day:
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“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

—Plato


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