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With Republican help, steady Marxist progress under Biden By March 4, 2021 The Senate Republicans got a scalp. The mean tweets of Neera Tanden got her nomination as Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director pulled by the Biden Administration. Wow. Has the GOP demonstrated its a serious opposition party? But some Republicans seem eager to confirm Communist Party-backed candidate Rep. Deb Haaland in a far more important position that of Secretary of the Interior, with jurisdiction over: 480 million surface acres – nearly one-fifth of the land area of the United States. 700 million acres of subsurface minerals, and 2.5 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf. ....
How Identity Politics Revives Slaveholders’ Argument For Group Rights February 15, 2021 For something as seemingly mundane as a government report on civics, the “1776 Commission Report” has been a surprisingly hot topic. The report was posted to the White House website on a Monday around 5:30 p.m. ET. It was one of the last actions of the Trump administration. Less than 48 hours later, in one of the very first acts of the Biden administration, it was taken down. Fortunately, a handful of organizations posted it on their own websites so it lives on. The report set out to make the case for the importance of teaching civics and honest history in our self-governing republic, and it does a great job of that. It also does a very good job of summarizing the tensions in the Constitution over slavery concluding, rightly, that while the Constitution was far from perfect on the issue, it provided the foundation for the abolition movement. This is particularly importan ....
Both on the historical issue of the extent of the American founders’ indebtedness to classical antiquity, and on the normative issue of the value of the classical legacy, I think we’re all agreed that it’s a complicated mix. So what I have to offer in this comment is not really a bold salvo of any sort, but just a few observations and quibbles. C. Bradley Thompson rightly points to Jefferson’s and Adams’s skeptical attitude toward the merits of Plato as a political thinker; but I don’t think we should infer from this that the influence of the ancients upon the founders lay mainly in the ethical rather than in the political sphere. For most of the criticisms that Jefferson and Adams make of Plato’s ....