(Larry S. Su) As an immigrant and later naturalized citizen of the United States, I have always been attracted by what America stands for — democracy, justice, equality, and hope — since I was a college student in China forty years ago. Today as a professor of American literature who helps students to appreciate the greatness of America and its glorious literary creativity, I return again and again to my favorite author Walt Whitman and his unparalleled patriotism and hope for America, as is expounded in his The Leaves of Grass,
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What is Heroic Virtue?
(Andrew E. Harrod) “Our culture has a very confused sense of heroism, often applauding the biggest, strongest, loudest, or wealthiest,” writes Catholic commentator Bear Woznick in his new book, Deep Adventure: The Way of Heroic Virtue (Sophia Institute Press). In response to this distortion, he has drawn upon his own daring life of surfing Hawaii’s waves, skydiving, and running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, to examine insightfully the seven cardinal virtues.
The UN’s Unprecedented Witch Hunt Against Israel
(Jordan Cope) While largely established to forge “friendly relations among nations,” the U.N. has been anything but friendly toward the Jewish state: Israel.
The Top 10 COVID Villains of 2021
(C.J. Baker) Your humble correspondent hoped to have this retrospective completed by the start of the New Year, but a tussle with omicron intervened. Nevertheless, it still seems worthwhile to pause and remember the worst COVID offenders of 2021.
The Corruption of Science by Money and Marxism
(Norman Rogers) There are many shady methods for making money. There are frauds like Ponzi schemes or pump and dump stock schemes. A more subtle scheme is convincing naïve students to take out large loans to pay inflated tuition so that colleges can milk the taxpayer. The consequences of the student loan fraud are far-reaching, such as delaying family formation and childbearing.
Joey 2022: The Worse the Better
(Christopher Chantrill) Is it possible that deep inside the Joe Biden administration there is a conspiracy of cunning manipulators at the very center of the Deep State determined to completely discredit our current ruling class in every aspect of its ideology and political formula?
Don’t Get Cocky about the Midterms
(E. Jeffrey Ludwig) We are hearing a lot of people expressing happiness at the low Biden poll numbers, and some are looking forward to a Democrat crash later this year. One conservative outlet stated, “The polling confirms voters are fed up with Mr. Biden’s failures. After a year of Biden-driven decline, Americans are looking for a positive, forward-looking alternative.” Perhaps they are counting their chickens before they are hatched?
Wokeness Hits the Upper Echelons of the Air Force
(Mark Jarrett) A few days ago, I noticed a disturbing tweet by Representative Dan Crenshaw about preferential treatment and lowered standards in the Air Force Special Tactics selection course. Having sufficient background to be fairly confident in my understanding of the matter, I’ll place links to many of my sources here, here, here, here, here, and here. The gist of the story is that the Air Force Special Tactics community encountered wokeness, but resistance in the lower ranks sparked a backlash.
Time to Re-Evaluate the Legacy of Martin Luther King
(Vince Everett Ellison) After finding evidence that the “man of God” and “moral conscience of our nation,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., participated in the rape of a parishioner, engaged in numerous sex orgies, received cash payments from known communists, and admitted that he was a Marxist, King biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Garrow wrote of King, “There is no question that a profoundly painful reckoning and reconsideration inescapably awaits.”
The Loathsome Ruling Class and the January 6th Protestors
(Steve McCann) On January 6, 2022, the governing and corporate media wing of the ruling class put on a sophomoric production commemorating the first anniversary of a contrived “insurrection.” Self-righteous preening and blatant propagandizing amid a sea of lies were the hallmarks of the ceremony.
The Movie Chinese Communists Hate the Most?
(Janet Levy) Some films are chilling because their fiction penetrates the agonizing core of reality. The soon-to-be-released Unsilenced, from award-winning Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Leon Lee, is a prime example. It brings into sharp focus the oppression unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Falun Gong, a movement that emphasizes ethical conduct, qigong exercises, and meditation. Fearing that Falun Gong would overtake it in popularity, the party has since 1999 been persecuting practitioners with arrest, torture, forced labor, menticide, and execution. But an underground resistance has established itself, led by ordinary Falun Gong practitioners pushed by extraordinary circumstances into heroic acts.
The Pain of Public Debt
(Gary Marshall) One of the big arguments against government borrowing comes from James Buchanan, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 1986. In his book Public Principles of Public Debt, he argued against government borrowing because he claimed that the public enjoys the benefits of public expenditures while the debts incurred pass along to future generations for settlement. Buchanan surmised that if residents endure no consequences for funds borrowed and spent, little constraint exists to dampen the fiery spending aspirations of government bureaucrats and leaders. It would not be very different from a person indulging every consumptive whim while handing the bill to distant progeny.
Dumbing Down Minority Students
(Eileen F. Toplansky) For years now, the educational establishment and the Democrat Party have colluded to damage pride of accomplishment within the black community. Now that the Democrat Party is essentially a Marxist outlet, the drive for weakening American children’s education is on full display. In fact, “dumbing down education [is the] key to dismantling America.” It is the communists’ dream to destroy the American dream.
Five COVID Books You Must Read
(James Jeffery) For the last two years, we have witnessed a war on truth. From the censorship of key medical experts to the widespread dissemination of false information concerning the efficacy of lockdowns, masking, and vaccines, societal distrust is at an all-time high.
The Vaccine Passport Pathway to a Social Credit System
(Jeffrey Barrett) Simply put the vaccine programs are really population control programs, because by pushing vaccines the elites are pushing vaccine passports which are the first step to creating digital ID numbers on a software platform where every subject’s personal information will eventually end up. Control of information means control of the subjects.