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Law Schools Run Amok

Ron Lipsman — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:46:12 +0000

A review of Walter Olson's book: Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and Overlawyered America

I have argued in this journal that the progressive movement in America achieved success by following the game plan of the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who advocated: capture the culture, the politics will follow. The Left implemented Gramsci’s scheme by [...]

Book Review: Never Allow a Crisis to Go to Waste

Steven D. Laib — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:40:07 +0000

Bart DePalma has created a brilliant exposition and history of the radical left in American society. This book is a must read. It isn’t often that a book comes alone that this writer finds good enough to tag as a “must read.” It became obvious that this was true in the first few pages of this [...]

Daniel Yergin’s The Quest: Human Ingenuity, Passion, the Fall of Caliphatism and the Rise of Prosperity

Ralph Benko — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:38:21 +0000

Author Daniel Yergin writes about the correlation between terrorism and oil.

Happy New Year! Consider Keynes’s last words: “I should have drunk more champagne.” To avert similar rue when our own lives end let us pop an extra cork to celebrate a world undeniably confronting a tsunami of … affordable energy. Daniel [...]

Secular Theocracy : The Foundations and Folly of Modern Tyranny

David J. Theroux — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:10:04 +0000

The Enlightenment set in motion what has become today’s secular theocracy that is authoritarian and hypocritical for not just its denial of moral condemnation of secular violence, but its exaltation of such violence as highly praiseworthy.

Part 2 will be published January 2012. Part 1: We live in an increasingly secularized world of massive [...]

Sending the Education System Back to School

Steven Martinovich — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:19:42 +0000

In Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy, Andrew Rosen, CEO of test preparation material giant Kaplan, Inc., argues that institutions like Rosen’s Kaplan University, DeVry Institute of Technology and the University of Phoenix are educating Americans that the mainstream post-secondary system has long ignored as “not college material.”

Ever since A Nation [...]

Verdict for America: Solutions for our Most Pressing Problems

Rachel Alexander — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:37:47 +0000

Lawyer and judge pro tem Bill Ponath has written a first-rate book updating us on the hottest issues facing the U.S. today and how to resolve them. A must read for anyone who wants to keep up with current affairs.

Bill Ponath, an attorney and long-time pro tem judge, has written the definitive [...]

Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism

George Shadroui — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:43:33 +0000

A review of Professor Carl Bogus' new book. Bogus, a liberal professor, is so intent on his thesis that he misrepresents Buckley's views repeatedly.

A liberal historian who did conservatism the favor of treating its ideas seriously would surely be a good thing. Just as liberalism in the 1950s needed a coherent conservative [...]

Abuse of Power: A Savage Adventure

Dr. Phil Taverna — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:55:36 +0000

If you like espionage and Michael Savage, Abuse of Power is a great book. It was a pleasant surprise, and most people should find it enjoyable. And with all books that are filled with conspiracies it is an eye-opener.

I have not heard Michael Savage on the radio for a while. It was always great [...]

Out of the Turret and into Hell, by V. Elaine Benson

Mike Barnes — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:04:37 +0000

The story of growing up in 1930's America and experiences in World War II have useful lessons for today's Americans.

Why would we place a review of a fictional (actually more of a creative non-fiction) book about a World War II turret gunner on the Intellectual Conservative website? In addition why would I take [...]

Democracy, Denied; Republic, Lost

Ralph Benko — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:00:40 +0000

A review of Phil Kerpen's new book "Democracy Denied." What is most compelling about Kerpen’s book is the fact that it lays out a practical, sensible, powerful solution: The REINS Act.

Does this government represent you? 78% of us say that America is on the wrong track. Only 15%, near an historic low, feel America [...]