CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT (9 min)

Stop crying wolf

How many times have you seen a headline claiming the apocalypse is coming because of what humans are doing to the environment? It could claim that we’ll run out of food by 2050, or that coastal cities will be underwater in a few years, or that the Earth is well on its way to becoming unlivable.

This kind of fearmongering not only preaches misinformation, but also distracts Americans from the legitimate environmental issues that they can actually affect.

Steven Hayward, writing for The American Mind, urges conservatives to take back the debate around environmental policy. He likens the repeated drumbeats of world-ending rhetoric to the boy crying wolf, and he says Americans are tired of it. Hayward believes our fellow citizens are ready to hear reasonable discussion on how to take care of their local communities.

“With the exception of the climate and ocean pollution, most environmental issues in the 21st century are smaller or more specific and more local in scale than the grand pronouncements of apocalyptists would suggest,” Hayward writes.

What specific new environmental problems should we focus on? Read Hayward’s full article here to find out.

CATEGORY: MARXISM (36 min)

The roots of disorder

The modern eruption of movements like Critical Race Theory should not surprise us. The same strain of thought that led to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels penning their infamous Communist Manifesto is the same that drives the war against “whiteness” and “fatphobia” today.

In a well-researched and deeply analytical piece for New Discourses, James Lindsay investigates the history of Marxism to discover its true core beliefs. He reveals that Marx developed a theory of mankind that turned the truth of the Fall on its head—instead, Marx created his own Fall.

“The result of [Marx’s] Fall is that Man comes to believe himself to be an individual, and thus he doesn’t and can’t know who he is,” Lindsay says.

This leads to one of the key tenets of Marxism: the “bourgeois” class has a special property which no one else has, and the only way to save man from domination is to abolish that property. It is this very point, Lindsay writes, that led to the rise of Critical Race Theory, Marxist feminism, and extreme climate justice.

Discover exactly how today’s Marxists apply the original teachings of their founder right here.

A Debate: Is Bitcoin Good for America?

The advent of Bitcoin has been compared to Martin Luther’s 95 Theses in its impact on staid and corrupt institutions by its defenders.

But is Bitcoin a friend or foe to America and to the just society?

Tech luminary George Gilder will debate theologian of money Jacob Imam on whether mass adoption of the cryptocurrency financial paradigm will help secure American financial prosperity in a clash moderated by Jon Askonas.

Join us on October 28^th  at the Magnolia Hotel in Dallas, TX, for this next installment of our Diana Davis Spencer Debate series, and co-sponsored with our partners at American Moment.

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

CATEGORY: CONSERVATISM (5 min)

We must all hang together

The left doesn’t have a monopoly on “isms” by any means. Especially in recent years, conservatives have found themselves drawn to a wide array of flavors of the broader movement. National conservatism, paleo-conservatism, neoconservatism, fusionism, integralism—the list goes on and on.

Dr. George Nash, in our Intercollegiate Review archive, argues that the divisions among conservatives today have hampered our ability to reach others. He recalls that the opposing force of the Soviet Union used to unify the conservative movement, but now, with so many progressive movements raging, it’s more difficult to fight a common enemy.

This isn’t the only problem keeping conservatives apart, Nash writes. He notes the internet tempted sectarian conservatives into finding their own bubbles, and that has helped the fracturing that we see today.

“So I hope that the various encampments on the Right will reaffirm the ecumenical fusionism and fusionist spirit of Buckley and Reagan and reject the sectarian temptation,” Nash implores.

Can it be accomplished? Review Nash’s entire article here.

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