Trump, Harvard, and Godfather Politics
As Lawrence E. Harrison shows, a nation is a state of mind, which means my parents had a transnational marriage. Mom and Dad were both children of Sicilian immigrants, but…
As Lawrence E. Harrison shows, a nation is a state of mind, which means my parents had a transnational marriage. Mom and Dad were both children of Sicilian immigrants, but…
Many philosophers, social thinkers, legislators, and those delirious with power have proposed ways to fix the human condition. Societies themselves have often been organized, often by custom as well as…
…Britain, contrary to what the historically inaccurate 1619 Project claims. Many of the founders, including Washington, believed that slavery would eventually fade away due to its financial unsustainability as an…
…open borders, alternative energy, renaming buildings and tearing down statues, the 1619 Project, pronoun wars, Soros prosecutors, speech codes, dis-invitations, cancel culture, patriarchy, the fight against trans-exclusionary-radical-feminists, anti-colonialism, micro-aggression fragility,…
…comes down to defending a leader as weak, dishonest, and destructive as Gay, who among the persuadable would want to have anything to do with it? Acolytes of the 1619…
…the 1619 Project are right at some visceral philosophical level. Indeed, I think many of their critics are going about the debate in a shortsighted manner. It’s true that revisionist…
…Indian Wars of New England. Three Volumes. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clarke Company. 1910. Peter W. Wood. 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project. New York: Encounter Books. 2020…
…1619 Project—a famous yet entirely factless curriculum that boils all of American history down to its supposed vices: racism, slavery, and capitalism. That narrative will not echo in the lecture…
…history in its shoddy and poorly researched 1619 Project, which is a travesty of the historical-critical method. History is now trivialized, and the qualified greatness of founders like Jefferson is…
…combat what they saw as liberal activism in the classroom, particularly to rebut The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, which reframed American history around slavery, the Trump White House…
On November 2, President Biden addressed the nation regarding the 2022 midterm elections with a sense of urgency, claiming that “our democracy is under threat” due to “political violence” planned…
…pushing a narrative of our past that is plainly false, aided and abetted by the truly execrable revisionist history known as the New York Times’ 1619 Project, led by journalist…
…obvious truth that the 1619 Project and other such exercises in woke history are “presentist”—cherry-picked fabrications designed to promote a radical agenda. The woke Twitter mob in short order bullyragged…
…how many people were dissatisfied with the education they received at their alma maters. “If people are hungry for more,” we thought, “and if the market is flooded with 1619…
…Times’ 1619 Project (from a critical lens), compared with those engaging a broader analysis such as Red, White, and Black and The Critical Classroom (both from a liberal lens). Needless…
…studies professor discussed the New York Times’ 1619 Project alongside the Woodson Center’s 1776 Unites, a compilation of essays on black history, he would not need to worry about the…
…misery. Woke fervor has made great strides in destroying the United States, Canada, and much of the West. History may be written by the woke winners (see “The 1619 Project”),…
…Heritage, and the Many Troubles with 1619”] In response, Mandel says that the reviewer is “part of a generation who think Ronald Reagan and Thomas Sowell are in the same…
How much would you pay for a brigantine beached and abandoned on Midway Atoll in the South Pacific? That’s the question faced by the main character of Robert Louis Stevenson…
…whites as the remedy for past discrimination, urged grant applicants to incorporate the racist and factually false message of The 1619 Project and other “anti-racist” practices in their programs, and…
…perspective on American founding needs to be provided to kids alongside the 1619 Project. Writings from Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and John McWhorter should be assigned in conjunction with Derrick…
…cautionary notes where facts and interpretations pull in different directions. Such is the case when comparing the popular 1619 Project with Red, White, and Black. The former was criticized by…
…of government but also the world around us. Pointing to the competing claims of the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission, he notes that while we should be willing to…
…degeneration of American higher education. And with K-12 school systems now incorporating in their curriculum gross distortions like the 1619 Project, which consider America’s history exclusively the history of racism…
…Woodson notes that most school curricula have been traditionally “short on inspiring stories of black achievement.” Instead, as seen with the New York Times’s 1619 Project, “the narrative of racial…
…an overview of the evolution from President Kennedy’s first executive order mandating “affirmative action” in government contracts, through the radicalism of Critical Race Theory, The 1619 Project, and Kendi-ist anti-racism….
…and other flaws in The 1619 Project, Hannah-Jones began her retreat. In September 2020, she tweeted The 1619 Project “does not argue that 1619 is our true founding,” blithely ignoring…
…historical scholarship of the twentieth century laid the groundwork for far less serious – but more famous – progressive assaults on America, such as those contained in The 1619 Project….
…began in 1619 with the creation of slavery and white supremacy in North America and ended in 2024 with the triumph of Critical Race Theory and Antiracism over the forces…
…the webinar we recently attended, 1619: The New Year Zero, requiring some voices to outweigh other voices based on outward appearance and geographic origin rather than quality, longevity, and influence,…