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Woke Got What It Wanted By Victor David Hanson Stanford University The “woke” movement was giddy after Jan. 20, 2021. The left controlled both houses of Congress.President Joe Biden was drafted as the necessary veneer of 1980s Democratic normality to ram through an otherwise hard-left agenda. All the major cultural, financial, economic, entertainment, and media institutions had played various roles in seeing former President Donald Trump not just defeated, but also impeached, twice. He was written off as persona non grata after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. So, academia, corporate boardrooms, Hollywood, the media, the Pentagon, professional sports teams, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street in near hysterical fashion all boarded the woke train. All boasted of ferreting out “white rage” and hiring legions of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” czars. Read more... Reducing a Great Republic to Despotism By Larry P. Arnn Hillsdale College Listen to Fauci on Face the Nation, dismissing his crit...

I previously broached the subject of school performance a couple of days ago here . While funding per student has gone up five times from 1970 to 2010, test scores remain stagnant. I ronically, despite the United States having the second-best education system globally based on number of students who graduate and go on to higher education, it consistently scores lower than many other countries in benchmarks such as math and science. According to the Business Insider report in 2018, its education ranking was 38th in math scores and 24th in science. The United States' education rankings have been falling by international standards over the past three decades. It's not just math and science that are victims to our public school system.  Recent surveys show that young Americans know little about their own country, other than they hate it.  A new YouGov poll asked more than 1,000 people aged 14 and up about their knowledge of the country's history and institutions, and their patr...

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As Americans know from their own illustrious history, any nation’s well-being hinges on only a few factors. Its prosperity, freedom, and overall stability depend on its constitutional and political stability. A secure currency and financial order are also essential, as is a strong military. Perhaps most important is a first-rate inductive educational system.  Of course, nothing is possible without general social calm (often dependent on a reverence for the past) and secure borders. The following article by Dr. Victor Davis Hanson and YouTube presentation are well worth the time. How Much Ruin Do We Have Left? Western Civilization, the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, and Today