We are celebrating Independence Day in a time of national malaise, in which all sides seem to have become cynical and pessimistic about America and what it used to stand for. One foreign observer says that Americans used to be oriented to the future but are now fixated on the past. Is there a way forward?
The Earl of Sandwich was responsible both for your sandwich and for the soda that you drink with your sandwich. He was also a factor in the American colonies gaining their independence from Great Britain. And he exemplifies an important point about the doctrine of vocation.
So what is the difference between racist and anti-racist math?
A workbook instructing teachers how to incorporate critical race theory in the teaching of mathematics is full of post-Marxist jargon and postmodernist clichés.
A workbook used to show math teachers how to teach mathematics in light of critical race theory offers a list of characteristics of "white supremacy," including "objectivity" and "individualism."
Big corporations used to be associated with conservatives and Republicans. But now they are increasingly socially progressive. Why is that? There are economic and social reasons, including the ability to exploit their workers--many of whom are despised Trump supporters--while still feeling good about themselves.
We should not be surprised when campuses suppress freedom of speech and other civil liberties. Leftist radicals do not believe in those concepts, as is evident wherever they rule. They reject "bourgeois" values such as individualism in favor of collectivism and group solidarity.
Yeonmi Park escaped from the crushing oppression of North Korea, only to find the same kind of leftwing propaganda, thought control, and censorship at an American university.
The Republican Party's "three-legged stool" of the Christian right, business interests, and neo-conservatives is coming apart. But Democrats have unstable coalitions of their own. What are the prospects of different alignments?
Hermann Sasse on how the Lutheran church is different from both the Roman Catholic Church and the Reformed Churches, while also being in continuity with the historic "catholic" church in a way that Rome is not.
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