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He who controls the narrative controls the people. Dylan Art:

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#amwriting Efficiency Gets You Nowhere Fast: Why Effectiveness Is Marketing’s Real Edge. My Business North mktg column: "When I first began working in a corporate environment one of the books I read was Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive..." https://t.co/CNl6eM7HH2

[Restoring the West @RestoringWest]

AI can help students memorize facts.

But it cannot replace teachers, classmates, books, conversation, or the moral formation that turns children into wise and responsible citizens.

In her latest for @RestoringWest, @jarobinson1 explains why education needs humans, not just apps.

Read: https://t.co/SRwE5NlYhp

#RestoringTheWest #Education #AI #Learning

[Restoring the West @RestoringWest]

The Restoring the West Manifesto

I spent the first part of my life living under oppression. I know what it means to be silenced, to have your freedom stolen, to watch a civilization reject the very values that make human flourishing possible.

I also know what it means to be free. And I know that freedom is not inevitable — it must be defended, understood, and taught anew to every generation.

The West is at risk of losing that fight. And too many people who should be leading the defense have no idea how to do so.

That’s why we’re launching Restoring the West.

The Crisis We Face

The civilization that gave the world individual liberty, the rule of law, scientific inquiry, and human dignity is under siege — not primarily from external enemies, but from internal collapse.

Many of our institutions have been captured. Too many of our universities teach students to despise their own inheritance of broad thought and discourse. Our media amplifies every grievance to leftist ideology, while ignoring threats from intolerant ideologies and forces. Our leaders lack the moral vocabulary and fortitude to defend what we’ve built.

Meanwhile, illiberal ideologies — from political Islamism to postmodern identity politics — advance unchecked, demanding submission to group identity over individual conscience, censorship over free speech, and tribal loyalty over universal human rights.

Classical liberals and conservatives? Too often, we’re losing. We win elections but lose the culture. We defend policies but surrender the principles. We react to provocations but fail to plant ideas that endure. We even wage wars to liberate oppressed people in other nations, yet we fail to explain—both to outsiders and to our own citizens—the moral absolutes that demand we use our power against evil, such as the death cult that served as the operating system of Iran’s Islamist regime.

The West will not be restored by winning news cycles. It will be restored by winning the argument for why the West is worth preserving.

Our Guiding Principles:

DEFEND JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES, UNAPOLOGETICALLY

The features that have uniquely made our civilization a place where all can flourish are rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition: individual liberty, equality before the law, freedom of conscience and expression, and the dignity of every human being. These values built free societies. These values are now under attack. We will defend them without apology or equivocation.

FIGHT ILLIBERALISM IN ALL ITS FORMS

Whether cloaked in religious orthodoxy or academic jargon, illiberalism seeks the same end: the suppression of individual freedom in service of collective control. We oppose political Islam, which seeks to impose religious law on free societies. We oppose postmodern ideologies that replace individual rights with identity hierarchies. We refuse to choose between these threats. We recognize them both as enemies of Western civilization.

PLANT IDEAS THAT ENDURE

This publication is not about outrage or affirmation. It's about intellectual ammunition. Every piece we publish will advance a clear argument, address serious objections, and connect to the project of civilizational renewal. We write for people who need to be persuaded, not just people who already agree. Our goal is to shape minds, change debates, and arm veterans and new generations for the work ahead.

SPEAK WITH MORAL CLARITY

I did not escape one form of oppression to tolerate another. I will not pretend that all cultures are equal, that all ideas are equally valid, or that we can restore the West through euphemism and evasion. Moral clarity is not extremism — it's the precondition for moral action. We will say what is true, even when the truth is uncomfortable.

FIVE PILLARS, ONE MISSION

Everything we publish connects to the civilizational foundations we must restore:

Faith & Family - The roots of free societies

Education - Where the future is won or lost

Law & Liberty - Without which we are subjects, not citizens

Nation & Citizenship - The framework for self-governance

Media, Arts & Culture - Where values are formed or deformed

These aren't talking points. These are the fronts in a war for civilization itself.

SMART BREVITY, SERIOUS PURPOSE

Busy people need clear arguments, not bloated essays. We respect your time by making every word count. But efficiency serves substance, not the other way around. We will never sacrifice intellectual rigor for algorithmic reach or dumb down complex arguments for easier consumption. Excellence is the standard we want restored in our civilization — it’s the standard we hold ourselves to here.

Why This Matters

I have seen what happens when civilizations abandon their principles. I have lived under the thuggish sandal of illiberalism. I know the price of freedom because I know what life costs without it.

Too many of the institutions that once defended Western civilization have failed or been captured. The task of restoration falls to us — to those who understand what’s at stake and refuse to surrender what generations before us built and bled for.

This is not pessimism. This is realism coupled with resolve.

The West can be saved. But only if we’re willing to make the argument for why it deserves to be saved — and then do the work required to save it.

Welcome to Restoring the West.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

[ed newman @ennyman3]

Insights from Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali
regarding the #fraud that has taken place in #Minnesota |
https://t.co/YfPoHyv609

[ed newman @ennyman3]

#amwriting A Few Thoughts On Listening. “Most of us find it easier to speak of the importance of an individual than to show it in practice by listening to one.”
--Os Guinness In Two Minds. https://t.co/aTE5Hyu82X

[ed newman @ennyman3]

#amwriting Re-Affirmation is a necessary act in all of our ongoing relationships. https://t.co/orQpfEFdwb

[ed newman @ennyman3]

One of the privileges of my writing career has been the variety of interesting people I've had the opportunity to interview. Kurt Vonnegut was among the tops

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

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Excellence in any sport is inspiring.

[Larry Legend☘️ @LarryBirdDaily]

The younger generation never got to see Larry Bird move like this..

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Red tape and over-regulation will be the death of America.

Why America can’t build the natural gas pipelines it needs — my interview with Senator Alan Armstrong, by @AlexEpstein https://t.co/asr9ftBjP1

[ed newman @ennyman3]

#amwriting To See or Not To See, That Is the Question.
Where do ideas about reality, God, morals, politics and the world we live in come from? What can we learn from self-examination? Can we ever see things as they are? https://t.co/uajbndZ68O

[ed newman @ennyman3]

#amwriting Cancer & The Mind – The Emotional Toll. An insightful guest column about #Cancer . . "I learned something quite profound... It changed the emotional lens through which I experienced the world."

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#amwriting A Torture Scene with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Some thoughts about electricity after waking from a somewhat disturbing dream.https://t.co/V8PzZtIrZA

[ed newman @ennyman3]

“AI gives America the opportunity to build again,” he told the crowd. “Electricians, plumbers, iron workers, technicians, builders – this is your time. AI is not just creating a new computing industry; it is creating a new industrial era.”-Jensen Huang

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#amwriting The Real Reason the U.S. Entered WWI: This Forgotten Telegram #history Many historians argue that the Lusitania was not the decisive factor in bringing America into the conflict. That distinction belongs to a far lesser known event. https://t.co/oa7m46DbSB

[ed newman @ennyman3]

@AlexAndBooks_ Yes, I read it years ago. In the 1990s I contacted Mr Adler once for a project I was working on,

[ed newman @ennyman3]

#amwriting #throwbackthursday The Boy in the Bubble: Our Perilous Postmodern Predicament (Revisited). We reassure one another with the language of progress while quietly sensing that something essential has gone missing. https://t.co/zi21fJ0tyu

[ed newman @ennyman3]

#amwriting The Pity of War and the Lusitania.
"The first casualty of war is truth." --Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917. https://t.co/QkhCXUuN5O

[ed newman @ennyman3]

“THE MULTITUDES remained plunged in ignorance… and their leaders, seeking their votes, did not dare to undeceive them.” --Winston Churchill

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#amwriting The Pity of War: Niall Ferguson Lays Blame at Britain's Doorstep Regarding WWI, the Great War.
The war was not inevitable, #Ferguson argues, but rather was the result of the mistaken decisions of leaders. https://t.co/qmyPPTODH4

[ed newman @ennyman3]

#amwriting A Poem by Siegrfried Sassoon for Memorial Day. World War I reminds us how quickly nationalism, alliances, propaganda, and political miscalculation can pull nations into catastrophe.
https://t.co/BWklqf8zUm