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The New Southern Democrats

  • Culture,
  • Politics
December 16, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Large parts of the African American and Latino elements within the Democratic Party are the most moderate elements within the party, playing the same role as the mostly white Religious Right played within the Republicans.  A surprising new force has […]

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The Most ‘Politically Correct’ University in America

  • Culture
September 14, 2020October 23, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some of the rules adopted in the last few years by secular universities, and even high schools, bear a suspicious resemblance to measures adopted more than 100 years ago by Christian colleges.  All they need now is a ‘doctrinal statement’ […]

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

  • Culture
September 3, 2020December 9, 2021
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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Does the Working Class Think It Can’t ‘Afford’ to Raise Their Children in a Christian Environment Any More?

  • Culture,
  • Religion
April 9, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In recent years we have heard how Christianity, and even Pentecostalism, seem to be losing their grip on the working classes, at least in white American communities.  Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, Charles Murray, who wrote Coming Apart, and […]

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If We’re ‘Better Behaved’ Just Because We’re Affluent, God is Not Impressed

  • Religion
September 2, 2015July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It is often believed that poorer people are worse behaved and therefore undesirable neighbors; and certainly enough, certain pathological behaviors are more common in the poor communities.  This is used as an argument for zoning and government land use control […]

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‘Christian Colleges’ for The Heathen?

  • Culture
July 18, 2015August 21, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There has been plenty of publicity about “political correctness” on campus and on the extreme sensitivity of today’s generation to “microaggressions”.  I posted “Freedom From Speech” not long ago, getting that title from Greg Lukianoff’s book of that name.  I modestly […]

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The Residential College Experience and New Urbanism

  • Culture
October 7, 2014July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Matthew Gerken, in Philanthropy Daily, has a nice essay entitled “Why We Love College.”  For all the problems with the American university experience – they’re not preparing the kids for jobs! – they’re not preparing the kids for anything but […]

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Academics, Politics, and Business

  • Culture
February 28, 2014July 12, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

David Brooks has written a fascinating essay on how self-presentation in politics is very different from that in the academic world, and how Michael Ignatieff came to grief in Canada finding this out the hard way. I don’t feel the […]

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Marc Andreessen: For Most of Us, It Will Get Worse

  • Culture
October 29, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Jesus said, “The master replied,`I say to you that everyone who has will be given more, but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away”.”  [Luke 19:26, Common English Version] Jesus was, given His other […]

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Peter Schrag’s Disillusionment

  • California
February 6, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Peter Schrag is very much a man of the left, so it is nice to see him getting disillusioned with the teachers’ union establishment. Related: “AWOL At The Kvetching” by Peter Schrag at California Progress Report

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