To the “woke” crowd, teaching civility and manners favors artificial concepts that reinforce power structures and control behavior. This Marxist perspective reduces everything to the class struggle terms of oppressor and oppressed. For this reason, manners must be eradicated and never taught to vulnerable children. So many things today reflect this anti-manners mentality. This trend … Read more
The COVID crisis has been a boon to leftists in the form of unprecedented entitlements and government controls. However, there is also one bright spot on the conservative horizon. There is a surge in the number of parents opting to homeschool their children. An Encouraging Trend According to an Associated Press story, about 3.3% of … Read more
With President Biden’s approval, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) extended a “moratorium” on landlords evicting tenants until October 3, 2021. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky justified the measure by citing the quick spreading of the new Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. She said that “This moratorium is the right thing to do to keep … Read more
With President Biden’s approval, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) extended a “moratorium” on landlords evicting tenants until October 3, 2021. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky justified the measure by citing the quick spreading of the new Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. She said that “This moratorium is the right thing to do to keep … Read more
Many educational reformers believe that the best solution for American education is allowing “school choice.” Let parents choose their children’s schools, and the free market would soon separate the successful from the failed schools. However, the recent case of Peltier v. Charter Day School, Inc. illustrates a fundamental flaw in that assumption. This decision dictating … Read more
The dramatic images of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban cannot help but evoke the strikingly similar scenes from the defeat of South Vietnam 46 years ago. Thousands of people physically clinging to airplanes, triumphant Taliban fighters posing in the Afghan presidential palace and helicopters snatching up the last embassy officials off rooftops are … Read more
Throughout the summer of 2021, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) worked to focus the world’s attention on Cuba. Its petition for Cuba’s freedom grew in intensity in the wake of the protests across Cuba on July 11-12, the most massive unrest in decades. The Cuban government responded by … Read more
Is the term “reactionary” flattering or pejorative? Some progressive readers will answer that, of course, it is pejorative! I think this is a simplistic way to answer. A reactionary is someone who reacts. What would the world be like if no one reacted against error, evil, ignorance, poverty, disease, etc.? There are good and necessary … Read more
The January 6 Congressional Committee hearings are embroiled in controversy. It was expected. The hearings will resolve little more than harden the two sides in their respective positions. Unfortunately, they are full of the political theater that has come to dominate American society. Free Book: Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic … Read more
On August 5, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) held a press conference and rally in front of the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. The TFP announced the delivery of 72,000 signatures to the White House asking for action to free Cuba from the scourge of communism. On this … Read more
