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CATEGORY: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (26 min)
** This is what the new Confederacy looks like ([link removed])
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It’s become commonplace to compare our current politics to 1860 America.
No doubt you’ve seen the “brink of Civil War?” headlines. They’re hard to miss, albeit easy to dismiss.
But maybe, Victor Davis Hanson suggests, these comparisons are on to something ([link removed]) .
Just not in the way people suspect.
Writing in The New Criterion, Hanson finds the spirit of the Confederacy alive and well . . .
. . . in Silicon Valley ([link removed]) !
Hanson’s The Dying Citizen was the ISI Conservative Book of the Year in 2021. He applies his expertise to draw out the uncanny affinities ([link removed]) between 1860 Big Cotton and 2022 Big Tech.
Read his devastating takedown of “the feudal politics of the new plantationists” right here ([link removed]) .
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CATEGORY: TRADE WAR (22 min)
** There is nothing conservative about free trade ([link removed])
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“I want to change the way many of you think about trade,” Robert Lighthizer declared ([link removed]) at ISI’s “American Economic Forum” in July.
Lighthizer served as U.S. Trade Representative under President Trump, and he believes American workers have been sold a bill of goods.
Free trade, he argues, is “the exact opposite of conservatism ([link removed]) ”—a “philosophy of consumption” and materialism that undermines values, production, and national integrity.
And he thinks great Americans, from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan, would agree with him.
Who wins big from global free trade?
Not the American people. ([link removed])
Lighthizer builds a compelling case for economic protectionism as the bedrock of our nation’s survival. Are you persuaded?
Come for the sweeping history . . . stay for the Teddy Roosevelt quotes about the “fatty degeneration of the moral fiber” . . . and see what the Trump administration did for American manufacturing ([link removed]) .
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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.
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Because our student editors and writers are bravely bringing conservative ideas to their campuses, we’re highlighting their efforts here.
Chaos, Unity, But Still Trouble, at the Michigan GOP Convention ([link removed]) via The Michigan Review
Robbing from the Poor, Giving to the Rich ([link removed]) via The Free Pack
CATEGORY: STUDENT LOANS (5 min)
** You’re going to pay for that ([link removed])
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Free education is awfully expensive ([link removed]) , George Leef argues.
He’s not just talking about hidden taxes, either.
“Making college “free” doesn’t just shift the burden of paying for it; it also has a number of bad side effects that both increase the cost and decrease the value of college education.”
By heavily subsidizing higher education, the government has incentivized frivolous spending . . . low-quality students . . . and academic mediocrity.
With those things comes “degree inflation.” And now, more and more degrees are required for jobs that shouldn’t require them ([link removed]) .
Leef’s 2016 article ([link removed]) will leave you wondering: Can anyone afford free education?
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Thought of the Day:
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“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
— Milton Friedman
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