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CATEGORY: THE LEFT (13 min)
** The root of all wokeness ([link removed])
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Wokeness surrounds us. But where did it come from?
These days there’s no shortage of explanations.
Writing in City Journal, Theodore Kupfer breaks down the possibilities ([link removed]) .
Is it the fault of the academic theorists . . . prestige-hungry middle managers . . . college snowflakes crying for safe spaces . . . amorphously expanding civil rights laws?
None of those explanations completely add up, Kupfer writes.
Do you want a more comprehensive account? You’ll find it right here ([link removed]) .
This is the defining ideological struggle of our time. It behooves you to know your enemy.
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CATEGORY: CULTURE WAR (4 min)
** Is the culture war already hot? ([link removed])
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Pat Buchanan worries the battle may already be over ([link removed]) .
Yes, America has been divided before.
But in the past we still had some shared confidence in our institutions or in leaders who could unite us.
Today, not so much ([link removed]) : “We are a country whose people have a diminishing confidence in almost all of its institutions, from big business to the churches, universities and media.”
What, he wonders, could possibly bring us back together again? What common ground even exists anymore?
If we can’t find that common ground, it’s very bad news ([link removed]) for the American Experiment.
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** Gala for Western Civilization ([link removed])
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October 13 will be a night to remember.
At ISI’s sixteenth annual Gala for Western Civilization ([link removed]) in Washington, D.C., you and hundreds of other ISI friends and supporters will partake in an evening that will be unforgettable.
This year ISI will be showcasing top academic talent across three disciplines: political theory, economics, and history. We want to provide our alumni and supporters with an opportunity to experience some of the greatest conservative minds of our generation. The evening’s speakers include:
* Chair of the Department of History at the University of Dallas, Susan Hanssen, who will give the keynote address
* The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvey C. Mansfield, who will receive ISI’s Charles H. Hoeflich Lifetime Achievement Award
* Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University, Glenn Loury, who will receive ISI’s Faculty Award
It should be a wonderful evening ([link removed]) full of great conversation.
Because our student editors and writers are bravely bringing conservative ideas to their campuses, we’re highlighting their efforts here.
How America Is Failing Its Young Men ([link removed]) via The Hitching Post
Armed Robberies on Avent Ferry Road, Welcome Back Students! ([link removed]) via The Free Pack
CATEGORY: COMMUNISM (22 min)
** Reading the soul of Stalin ([link removed])
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We all know Stalin was evil. A monster. Guilty of starving to death millions of peasants and ordering the torture and murder of innumerable friends and associates.
But what gave rise to this evil in him? Was it his particular nature . . . the character of Russian autocracy . . . or the fruits of communist ideology?
Stalin biographers have been wading through mountains of archival documents in search of the answer. Writing in Modern Age, Jeremy Friedman offers you a snapshot of the monumental dictator ([link removed]) .
What you read may well unsettle you—Both because of how much remains uncertain about Stalin’s character . . . and because of just how wrongly he was judged by American statesmen in his day.
“Perhaps the most important question to answer about Stalin is this,” Friedman writes ([link removed]) . “Will we see his like again, and more important, will we know it when we see it?”
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Thought of the Day:
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“One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.”
— Douglas MacArthur
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