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Socialism and the Great Reset

Michael Anton

It has become increasingly common to hear that the main threat facing America and the American way of life is “socialism.” These warnings have grown with the rise of the so-called “Great Reset.” Its mission is to persuade people, at least in the developed West, to accept lower standards of living in order to create a more just and “equitable” world.

Witness to a Crisis

Daniel J. Mahoney

Whittaker Chambers remains one of the great witnesses to the moral, political, cultural, and spiritual crisis that spanned the “short twentieth century,” beginning with the “guns of August” in 1914 and ending with the annus mirabilis of 1989 as East-Central Europe was liberated from the Communist yoke.

'THE ROUNDTABLE' SPECIAL EDITION

The Challenge of Modern Democracy

Dr. John Marini

This week, while The American Mind‘s editors are off, Ryan Williams took the opportunity to sit down with Dr. John Marini. Against the background of the FBI’s unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago, which took place on the 48th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation, the pair look back at Nixon’s experience with the administrative state as it relates to today. Plus: what can we do to bring government back into the purview of politics and wrench it from the clutches of an increasingly autonomous bureaucratic class?