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Joshua Tait
Jul 06, 2021 8:55 PM ET
In a shift from earlier conservatives, key writers and publications from the pro-Trump and self-professedly post-conservative right have begun to see the United States not just at a critical point in its history, but in many ways as past the point of no return. They envisage America as under assault by disciplined and united leftists. According to one essayist in the American Mind, the “ruling class” has divided Americans “over a novel coronavirus and fabricated racial animus” all of which was just a diversion from how that ruling class has been destroying Americans’ “humanity, freedom, and security in pursuit of their unending lust for power and control.” David Azerrad, an assistant professor at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C. campus, gives American decline a historical context, pointing to two phases: first, the rise in the 1960s and ’70s of Black Power and women’s and queer liberation movements critical of white, Chris
TRANSCRIPT:Matthew Spalding:Hello, this is Matthew Spalding. I’m the executive director of The 1776 Commission. I’m also vice president of Hillsdale College back at our Washington, D.C., campus. I’m joined today by Dr. Larry Arnn, who is the chairman of The 1776 Commission and also the president of Hillsdale College, and
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Meeting of The 1776 Commission
A statement following the May 24 meeting at Hillsdale College s D.C. campus
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WASHINGTON, May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On Monday, May 24, The 1776 Commission met at Hillsdale College s Washington, D.C. campus to discuss civic education curricula, state civic education reform efforts, pending federal legislation and executive actions, and future activity of the Commission.
Following the meeting, The 1776 Commission issued the following statement (PDF here):
The 1776 Commission met at Hillsdale College s D.C. campus to discuss civic education and the future of the Commission.
We are grateful for the widespread support of the work of The President s Advisory 1776 Commission, and we commend the many efforts, some new and many long established, underway to advance the principles and address the concerns voiced in The 1776 Report.