Author: Randy DeSoto
The views of the Authors are not necessarily the views of Enigmose
The appraisal of Ulysses S. Grant, the nation’s 18th president, has been on the rise in recent years, no doubt helped along by new works reexamining his leadership during a pivotal time in U.S. history.
Grant has seen the largest rise of any of the presidents in C-SPAN’s ranking by noted historians from 2000 to 2017, jumping from 33rd place to 22nd. The most recent survey was completed in 2017.
Many will likely have their true introduction to the Ohio native on Memorial Day when The History Channel premiers its much-anticipated three-night mini-series “Grant,” which is executive produced by Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Ron Chernow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Chernow, author of “Alexander Hamilton,” the biography that inspired the wildly popular Broadway musical, has done much to raise the profile of the exploits of this 19th century hero through his 2017 biography, “Grant.”
However, Frank Scaturro — author of “President Grant Reconsidered” (1999) and head of the Grant Monument Association — was among those drawn to study this former chief executive’s time in office before it was back in vogue.
His fascination with Grant began as a young boy studying the presidents and continued during his college years, when he volunteered as a guide at the General Grant National Memorial in New York City while attending nearby Columbia University.. . . Full Article @ Western Journal
If We Want Western Civilization Revitalized, We Can’t Leave It To Universities
We should be less concerned with getting elite universities to rededicate themselves to teaching Western heritage, and more focused on making Western culture a reality in our lives.
Intellectual knowledge is severable from practice, and this applies to the rest of the Western tradition, from art and architecture to literature and philosophy. In all of these, knowledge without works is dead, and universities teaching about them may be no more than museum tours of the intellectual and artistic artifacts of the past. Wisdom becomes knowledge, and knowledge declines into information. Read More
A New American Civics Portal
Real Clear Foundation’s project will not shy away from the injustices that have taken place throughout our nation’s history—including slavery and racism those will be depicted rightly as departures from America’s founding principles.
The Real Clear Foundation has launched a new American civics education portal, dedicated to renewing civic education in the United States.
If one good thing has come out of this season of quarantine, it’s that parents, forced to homeschool, are getting to see the unpatriotic and liberal curriculum public schools are teaching. In a recent article at the Federalist, Beth Freeley wrote about a world history assignment on gender theory (parents raising “theybies”) and a physics assignment on critical race theory that her freshman received from his public school. Evidently, a supplemental source like Real Clear’s American Civics Portal could not have come at a better time.
Though the American Civics Portal is not a direct response to the New York Times’ “ 1619 Project” it is “more than an answer” it, David DesRosiers, publisher of RealClearPolitics, wrote in an email. Read More
Lockdown Protests Confound Anti-Trump Elites
So they revert to the perennial claim that it’s all about racism.
The Washington Monthly recently singled out yours truly [David Catron] as a typically deluded Republican, “desperately hoping” that Donald Trump’s presidency can be saved by anti-quarantine protests, which we envision as “a renewal of the Tea Party spirit.” This fatuous nonsense is presumably based on a hasty perusal of a column warning the Democrats not to belittle the lockdown protestors lest they provoke an electoral backlash similar to that which they endured a decade ago. The author of the article, Nancy LeTourneau, predictably deploys every demeaning cliché ever circulated about the Tea Party movement and the current protests that she can conjure, including the tired canard that racism has been the animating force behind both. Read More
Our Super Smart Elite Shines During This Pandemic!
We Americans are truly blessed by having a mainstream media full of brilliant renaissance men, women, and gender non-specific entities who are masters of so many varied and intermittently useful skills and who are eager to share their knowledge with us benighted souls. The pandemic has revealed that every urban Twitter blue check scribbler, MSNBCNN panelist, NYT/WaPo doofus, and barely legal “senior editor” of a website you never heard of, is a Nobel Prize-winning epidemiologist, a master logistician, and a diversity consultant too boot.
They may all be lousy journalists, but damn it, they are also lousy at other jobs that they didn’t even pretend to train to do. ... Read More
Yea, Though I Walk Through The Uncanny Valley
You are being gaslit You are on the business end of a casual conspiracy of complicity.
No, you’re not crazy. They just want you to feel that way.
There is a special flavor of cognitive dissonance experienced by those confronted with the dawning of a collectivist utopia. It’s found in the twilight between luminescent NuThink, and the benighted remainders of objective reality to which we plebs still cling so bitterly. Read More
