Biden and Critical Race Theory—How To Fight Back Amid Admin’s Confusing Mixed Signals | The Heritage Foundation

By Jonathan Butcher

Judging from the flurry of headlines about racial discrimination and teaching history in schools, you could easily forget that school was out for the summer. But some students have already returned, and the rest will be back at their desks before you know it. So will the grownups settle the issue before all of them are back in class?

Not likely.

— Read on www.heritage.org/education/commentary/biden-and-critical-race-theory-how-fight-back-amid-admins-confusing-mixed

When Books Die, All at Once ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Stephen Masty

So, neither with a bang nor a whimper, the world ends with the remains of Western Civilization, now unlettered for many reasons, increasingly under-read, alone by choice, and still self-compelled to communicate.

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/when-books-die-timeless-stephen-masty.html

A Short History of Slavery | PragerU

By Candace Owens

Slavery didn’t start in 1492 when Columbus came to the New World. And it didn’t start in 1619 when the first slaves landed in Jamestown. It’s not a white phenomenon. The real story of slavery is long and complex. Candace Owens explains.

— Read on www.prageru.com/video/a-short-history-of-slavery/

Policing the World ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Walter McDougall

Benjamin Harrison insisted America’s truly dangerous enemies were not Great Powers abroad but a lapse of integrity and purity at home. He believed republicanism would spread in the world by “sympathy and emulation” and feared the harm Americans might do to themselves and to others should they undertake to extend their institutions by force: “We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/policing-world-walter-mcdougall.html

Moving Beyond Interpretation & Getting to the Past as It Was ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Zachary Palmer

History lessons, brought to life by primary sources, help students move beyond interpretations of the past to the past as it was. History then no longer appears musty and impersonal, and when excellently taught, reveals an unchanging picture of human nature: one that is deeply personal, surprisingly relatable, and amazingly understandable.

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/moving-beyond-interpretations-past-zachary-palmer.html