Conservatives have attacked The New York Times’s 1619 Project as a radical falsification of American history. The project claims that America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slaves were brought to the colonies. Historians have contested the project’s facts, perspectives and ideology. Many have declared it to be “fake history.” However, it is … Read more
“When we get ready to take the United States, we will not take it under the label of socialism….We will take the United States under labels we have made very lovable; we will take it under liberalism, under progressivism, under democracy. But take it we will.” Many Americans heard this quotation from Alexander Trachtenberg – … Read more
The entire nation should be gravely concerned as the New York Times’s “1619 Project” worms its way into American schools, both public and private. In recognition of this risk, the National Association of Scholars recently hosted a videotaped panel discussion titled 1776 v. 1619: Two Visions for American History. Free Book: Return to Order: From … Read more
The “sexual revolutionaries” of the sixties and their ideological descendants are all atwitter. On August 7, 2020, in official disregard of the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision guaranteed “transgender” students can use the restrooms and locker rooms for the sex of their choice. This is happening despite the rapidly … Read more
There is a raging current inside postmodern society that holds that people must seek self-esteem as a means to fulfillment. Fortified by the constant use of social media, individuals can construct a positive image of themselves for public consumption. This exercise of self-love promises happiness but delivers misery. However, the self-esteem movement suffers from no … Read more
Most people would like to forget about the first six month of 2020. So many aspects of daily life have changed that there is a kind of nostalgia for 2019. Many ache for a return to a time when most adults went to work every day, children spent five days a week in school, and … Read more
“It is an ill wind that blows no good.” The origin of this phrase is unknown, but it is accurate, even if the ill wind is the Wuhan virus. However, something good in this wind may be something called “pandemic podschooling.” Maybe. Similar ideas are labeled cooperative homeschooling, microschooling, or simply podschooling. Free Book: Return … Read more
Elizabeth Bruenig’s New York Times op-ed “A Saint’s Sins” was a lengthy indictment of the character and actions of Saint Junipero Serra. It is tempting to refer to it as a masterpiece of character assassination, except that it is not masterful. It recycles modernist and old anti-Catholic attacks that ignore the historical record and promote … Read more
In the wake of Covid-19 and the disturbances following the death of George Floyd, the people at the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) seem not to know which end is up. This conclusion naturally arises when looking at the material on its website titled “Catholic School Resources for Combatting Racism,” and especially the videotaped panel … Read more
It is a new day for Chicago school students. The Chicago Sun-Times relates the coming of this new dawn on June 5, 2020. “Chicago students started learning America’s real history. “Not the whitewashed history, the disjointed one that jumps from European settlers “finding” America, to a sanitized version of slavery, to the Civil Rights Movement … Read more
