The American Mind's Weekly Digest

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Kids Must Cry

Max Eden and Scott Yenor

More and more public schools are prioritizing “equity,” an ill-defined word that can provide space and support for the radicalization of education. School leaders must eschew this buzzword, and parents must be on guard against it, lest it transform schools from institutions that work in loco parentis—in the place of parents—into institutions that work against them.

Renewing American Purpose

Russell Vought

Whittaker Chambers once said that one of the most important cravings in the modern world is height. The ability to get up and see the lay of the land, above the various forces of history moving us when we don’t know we are being moved. This talk is an attempt to gain some constitutional height about where we are as citizens.

'THE ROUNDTABLE' EPISODE #139

The Land of Öz

Ft. Matt Peterson

Midterms are rocketing toward us, and House Republicans have come out with a platform of sorts; the editors discuss how both party’s prospects are shaping up by way of the fascinating–and absurdist–case study of Pennsylvania’s Senate race between Mehmet Öz and John Fetterman. Meanwhile, rumblings around the world–leaks in Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines, unrest in Iran, and a conservative victory in Italy–give occasion to wonder just where the world is headed, and what the people in charge can possibly be thinking.