Modern historians often portray post-Civil War “Reconstruction” as a time when well-meaning Republicans tried to aid newly-freed slaves who were being oppressed by their former masters. Using revisionist history, Wanjiru Njoya comes up with different, more realistic, accounts.
The reason why wokeism is not constructive and solely destructive is because wokeism has no positive values.
In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at Allen Wood‘s attempts to salvage Marx‘s theory of exploitation. While Dr. Gordon acknowledges Allen‘s expertise in 19th-century philosophy, he notes that Allen truly misunderstands economics.
Ryan and 'Crisis' magazine editor-in-chief Eric Sammons examine how many Christians pay too little attention to the true costs of war. Ryan and Eric also discuss the importance of Just War Theory.
There finally is pushback against Critical Race Theory that has infected higher education and most of our other institutions. Unfortunately, CRT concepts are so embedded in our body politic that the only way to combat them is through revisionist history.
The American conservative movement has changed with the advent of MAGA and the economic nationalism associated with it. However, there never was a “golden age” of conservatism, as the William F. Buckley brand was terribly flawed from the beginning.
Mainstream economists today examine economic phenomena from a “black box” perspective in which they look at inputs and outputs without trying to understand causal mechanisms that make the outcomes possible.
While Scrooge rightly dropped many of his imprudent traits on Christmas Day, following his haunting, this need never have required the dropping of the rugged individualism he originally embodied.
There finally is pushback against Critical Race Theory that has infected higher education and most of our other institutions. Unfortunately, CRT concepts are so embedded in our body politic that the only way to combat them is through revisionist history.
Buchanan and Tullock‘s The Calculus of Consent influentially applies economic ideas to politics, focusing on methodological individual. However, there are a few pitfalls about which readers should be aware.
