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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Richard Samuelson |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Scott Yenor
In his history of the New Deal, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called the events that precipitated the election of Franklin Roosevelt and the creation of the New Deal “The Crisis of the Old Order.” Building on the ideas of the earlier Progressive Movement, (FDR ‘s “Commonwealth Club Address” outlining the agenda for his presidency is officially a “Campaign Address On Progressive Government”), Roosevelt led a realignment, and helped to create a new political order under our Constitution.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Phillip W. Magness |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Scott Yenor
For many Americans, March 11, 2020, was the day when it all became real. For some weeks rumors had been circulating about the “novel Coronavirus” out of Wuhan, China. Cruise ships had been quarantined and sanitizer stockpiled. It was the morning of March 11, however, when Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress that there were already hundreds of confirmed American cases of Covid 19, making it unrealistic to prevent further spread. At lunchtime, the WHO officially declared a global pandemic.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Phillip W. Magness |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Scott Yenor
Until the onset of Covid-19, most public health experts explicitly rejected the use of large-scale quarantines, also known as lockdowns, as a viable policy response to a respiratory pandemic. Why then, within just a few weeks of the disease appearing in their countries, did those same officials—in the name of science and expertise—embrace draconian policies that shut down entire societies? The judgment against lockdowns rested on the general failure of such measures in past pandemics.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
americanmind.org | Scott Yenor
Editors’ NoteThis is op-ed is based on a new report, “Restoring Confidence in the University of Wyoming,” published by the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. Conservatives interested in higher education reform have spun their wheels for decades.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
jamesgmartin.center | Scott Yenor
Florida administrators are revising general education in universities and colleges. Perverse incentives have diluted and politicized general-education courses at the expense of foundational knowledge. Since universities will not fix themselves, state administrators must safeguard educational vision where faculty and university administrators will not. How did we get here? Most college curriculum was prescribed in the 1800s.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Mark Bauerlein |Scott Yenor
In May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill preventing colleges in the state system from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and banning general-education courses that “teach identity politics and specified concepts related to discrimination.” Seven months later, Florida’s Board of Education approved rules that removed a sociology course from the state’s list of core general-education courses.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Scott Yenor
The best thing to promote fertility is to promote marriage. This means discouraging ideologies hostile to marriage and promoting healthy religious belief. Ideologies are lullabies, entrancing people to embrace the bright side of cultural decay. James Burnham called liberalism the ideology of western suicide. Among modern Western peoples, feminism and sexual liberation ideologies are our lullabies. Opposing compulsory feminism is crucial in this regard.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
americanreformer.org | Scott Yenor
Editor’s note: This is a modified version of a talk given at the Trad Dad conference in Battleground, Washington October 25, 2024. I first thought about the problem of birth rates while writing my dissertation on David Hume. Hume’s essay “Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations” showed that ancient nations were more sparsely populated than modern ones. Modern freedom had caused the population growth underway during his lifetime, Hume argued.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Scott Yenor |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis
More than a dozen states have banned DEI offices, DEI statements, and trainings in the past year and a half with varying degrees of success. Some states like Utah and Wyoming have made mostly paper changes. Other states like Texas and Florida have seen actual dismantling of DEI offices. Dismantling DEI offices limits the top-down corruption of universities. But it does little to establish a better educational vision in higher education or to change the direction of corrupt disciplines.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
texasscorecard.com | Scott Yenor
By | Texas university systems have adhered to the letter of the state’s ban on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices, statements, and trainings. Among the five largest universities, Texas A&M led the way. UT-Austin belatedly disbanded its DEI offices, after Sen.
