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Guest Post: “An Expanded Vision of ‘Western Heritage’: Why It Matters for Education”

  • Culture
September 3, 2020September 3, 2020
Author: David Green Ahmanson

The solution to the narrow focus of classical liberal arts education is to preserve their time-tested methods, but broaden their subject matter in both geography and time beyond ‘the Western Tradition’ as conventionally understood. In this piece, I summarize thousands […]

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Book Notice:  “Losing the Good Portion,” by Leon Podles

  • Culture,
  • Religion
June 10, 2020June 10, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There have been claims throughout the history of Christianity that portions of the Church were excessively feminized.  Though author Leon Podles is a Catholic himself, most of the space in his book, Losing the Good Portion: Why Men are Alienated […]

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The Gerontocratic Democracy of Old Africa, and Gerontocracy in Our Own Time 

  • Culture
May 22, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Young people have always probably chafed against their elders.  But in Africa, a gerontocratic system was instituted, which at least frustrated the development of a hereditary elite.  And we are not without elements of gerontocracy in our own society.  I […]

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On the Urbanist Classic, “Crabgrass Frontier,” by Kenneth T. Jackson

  • Culture,
  • Economics
May 12, 2020July 7, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the classic books on the history of suburbia is Kenneth Jackson’s Crabgrass Frontier. It came out in 1985, two years before my personal favorite, Bourgeois Utopias, by Robert Fishman.  This book notice discusses Crabgrass Frontier in view of […]

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The Adams Map: A Different Spectrum, A Challenge

  • Culture
August 29, 2014January 13, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Adams’ 2005 book, American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change in the United States, got little attention in the States.  In fact, since he is a Canadian author, only used copies can be found on the regular amazon.com, […]

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Michael Lind’s New Paradigm, and the ‘End’ of Social Conservatism

  • Economics
July 6, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Lind has released a new essay titled “The Coming Realignment” in The Breakthrough Journal, one of the most innovative magazines around today.  He predicts that social conservatism as we know it will fade away, but that we will not […]

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No Place Like Home Conference – June 3, 2013

  • Miscellaneous
April 1, 2013June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This conference is being hosted by me and others to discuss the current state of subsidized home ownership in America, something that has been happening since the end of World War II but since the 1970s has been less successful […]

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Stealth Democracy: A Summary of the Thesis of John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

  • Politics
February 22, 2012June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It was fashionable in the sixties to talk of ‘participatory democracy.’  But John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, claim, on the basis of much research and reading, that that is exactly what the […]

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Learning from Francis Fukuyama

  • Politics
August 10, 2011June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have finished Francis Fukuyama’s magnum opus, The Origins of Political Order, and as you might expect I like the way he cuts across traditional categories. Of course I have read his notorious The End of History and the Last Man, […]

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Different Kinds of Freedom

  • Culture
April 9, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here is a quotation from Aldous Huxley’s 1946 foreword to Brave New World: “As political or economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.  And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty […]

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We should work to get every qualified voter an ID. Some of the other restrictions, though, really are attempts to make voting difficult. https://notthebee.com/article/hey-woke-corporations-you-might-want-to-check-out-this-poll-about-popular-support-for-voter-id-laws

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And at the same time, a lot of congregations are having to rent schools and hotel auditoriums and storefronts because they can’t afford a building. What gives? https://www.governing.com/community/Churches-Are-Closing-Its-a-Challenge-for-Local-Governments.html

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If they proposed requiring a vaccine passport to vote, the sides would reverse quickly. https://apple.news/A4JK474RLSm2Ea-d1aSOPJQ

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