Commentary The following is an excerpt by Bruce Pardy from “The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—Not Cancelled,” a new book of essays by 20 Canadian critical thinkers edited by Aristotle Foundation president Mark Milke. Modern Western civilization grew out of the Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ascendancy of reason in…

The following story is adapted from Bauerlein’s recent book, “The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults.” Back in April 1969, a surprisingly conservative thing happened at the ultra-progressive campus of SUNY–Old Westbury when radical theorist Herbert Marcuse visited to give a lecture to the students. Michael Novak describes the episode in…

Communism is not just a theory. It’s a belief that was shaped from several dark theories rooted in Gnostic and Hermetic concepts that were popularized in the 1700s and 1800s. These ideas were taken and reformed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and then used by Karl Marx to shape the modern ideas of communism. His…

The race narratives being pushed in the United States, under systems such as critical race theory, are being used to create a Marxist revolution under a different name. This is according to Mike Gonzalez, author of “The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free” and “BLM: The Making…

The race narratives being pushed in the United States, under systems such as critical race theory, are being used to create a Marxist revolution under a different name. This is according to Mike Gonzalez, author of “The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free” and “BLM: The Making…

Commentary Since the early 1970s, when the Baby Boomer acolytes of George McGovern took control of the Democrat Party, the Left has been telling us that “dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” That is to say, the more strongly you oppose the policies and moral values of your country, the more you love it….

Commentary One of the many traps into which conservatives routinely fall is thinking that their ideological opponents don’t fully understand the nature and the consequences of the ruinous policies they advocate. Cries of, “don’t they realize that…” and “surely they can see the hypocrisy” fill the air as the well-meaning but utterly naïve Right tries…

Commentary As 2021 dawns, the war on our culture moves into high gear. The opportunistic intersection of the resistance to the Trump presidency, the rise of the monopolistic tech giants, the spurious panic over the psychologically weaponized CCP virus in the form of COVID-19 and its concomitant loss of personal freedom, the neo-Marxist hijacking and…