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Where Harvard Went Wrong shows what conservatives might offer to improve American higher education.

For more than fifty years, author Harvey Mansfield’s plea has always been that Harvard abandon its partisanship with the left and adopt instead a bipartisan position that welcomes conservatives as well as liberals.

Where Harvard Went Wrong is available now at Encounter Books.

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"Real historians know that the narrative models of history change along with history itself."

@JamesWHankins1 calls for opposition to the Marxist utopian narrative and a revitalization of Western traditions.

Read more on Hankins's exhortation for a new renaissance.
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Dispatches from the Late Republic offers Michael Anton's insights into the international order, containment, nuclear war, and an America First foreign policy doctrine—which President Trump said Anton has “defined.”

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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. If human passions are the same and never change, then things will recur."

Michael Anton joins @MorningAnswer to discuss the ‘Flight 93’ election of Donald Trump and the future of the American empire.
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Had the pleasure of discussing my book “American Trojan” (@EncounterBooks) with Paul Kalemkiarian on Songs of America. Paul’s take: “You’ll come away from this episode with a richer sense of how vision and persistence can shape not only personal destiny, but entire institutions and communities.”
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“Constantine had declared himself an ally of the Christians in the empire, and with his victory brought Christianity not only a measure of legitimacy but brought them increasingly into the counsels of imperial power.”

Allen C. Guelzo on Constantine's vision that changed the course of the Roman Empire and the role of Christianity within it.

Read on at the Golden Thread Substack: https://t.co/L1561CVbst

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The Making of the American Mind is a must-read on the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the individuals who made the Revolution and America possible.
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Matthew Spalding joins @TheCRCD to discuss the fierce debates and the significance of the Declaration of Independence.
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Joel Kotkin explains how the decline of upward mobility is fueling a neo-feudalist social order in The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, available now at Encounter Books.
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“The reason for the upsurge in socialism, in Canada and elsewhere, lies largely in the conditions faced by the younger generation. As in the United States and throughout the West, young people face a difficult future, particularly in terms of such things as good jobs and the ability to buy a house.”
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@joelkotkin describes how the erosion of the middle class and the loss of property ownership are pushing the next generation toward radical ideologies.

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Why Women Vote for Their Own Demise - Heather Mac Donald (@HMDatMI)

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Here's an early look at the Golden Thread curriculum, authored by some of the best teachers in @Hillsdale's classical schools. It's a companion to the beautiful and authoritative Golden Thread, authored by @JamesWHankins1 and Allen Guelzo and published by @EncounterBooks.

This is the essential guide for teaching Western Civilization to high school students. It's due to launch later this year, and it'll be available to everyone at no cost.

Let's bring back Western Civilization.

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Grateful to @rogerkimball of @EncounterBooks and his team for hosting a wonderful dinner at the Union Club in New York City. It was a privilege to discuss the themes of my book “American Trojan” with guests from the media and literary world, followed by a Q&A. Thank you for your hospitality!

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Heather Mac Donald's When Race Trumps Merit is out now.

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"Identity politics is about the glorification of the self based on the most trivial, irrelevant traits."

@ManhattanInst hosts @HMDatMI to discuss the real-world consequences of diversity-driven policies in education and the workplace, the growing skills gap, and the cultural factors that shape outcomes.
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"Plato’s aristocracy can therefore be seen as a species of political meritocracy—and a meritocracy of the most conservative kind, in which the candidates for the ruling class are chosen by co-optation."

@jameswhankins1 on how discourse and free discussion fueled rationality and justice in Greek philosophy and society.

Read more on the Golden Thread substack: https://t.co/e8VGdWu2jk

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The Making of the American Mind is available now at Encounter Books.
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“There is such a thing as an American mind . . . there are ideas and intellectual frameworks that are uniquely American.”

@RCPolitics hosts Matthew Spalding of @Hillsdale to explore The Making of the American Mind.
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"By the late 1700s, as revolutionary fervor took hold, drinking the wine was a kind of patriotic duty, a way to avoid paying taxes to the British Crown."

Sam Schneider of @EncounterBooks traces how Madeira, the fortified Portuguese wine exempted from the Navigation Acts, became the political beverage of the American Revolution. When British officials seized John Hancock's sloop Liberty and its 25 casks in 1768, a mob of 3,000 Bostonians rioted. Continental Congress delegates drank Madeira through long afternoons of debate. Washington secured over a thousand bottles for his circle during the war. Schneider's essay shows how a single wine, carried in the hulls of ships and aged by tropical heat, ran through the social and political life of the founding from the first protests to the framing of the Constitution.

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Harvey Mansfield’s decades of warnings and reforms for higher education are collected in Where Harvard Went Wrong, out now at Encounter Books. https://t.co/dqTTiOkLRC

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“Whether Harvard can be saved is an open question, but at least Mansfield has pointed to problems that real educational leaders might be able to fix or avoid at their schools.”

George Leef highlights Harvey Mansfield’s critiques of grade inflation and the abandonment of objective truth in higher education in @NRO. https://t.co/Jgadw6DrW9