America's Freedom Megaphone
America's Freedom Megaphone

Author: Daniel L. Bolz

Publisher: Post Hill Press

Published: 2023-09-26

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13:

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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln · We love America and our founding principles. · We want to make a difference for good but don’t know how. · We want to yell “Freedom!” at the top of our lungs as the Scottish patriot William Wallace did in the final scene of Braveheart. · We think the 2020 presidential election was rigged. · We feel our children are propagandized to in school. · We are saddened by evil practices veiled as “political correctness” and “big government” dictates that squash our religious, speech, and personal protection constitutional rights. · We feel illegal immigration is significantly harming our country. · We know the mainstream media lies to America. · We want to pull the plug and “drain the swamp” in Washington, DC. · We are sick and tired of how America is being denigrated and infiltrated by Socialist, Marxist, and Communist philosophies. · We feel the Judeo-Christian fabric of our society is fraying at the edges. · We sense that federal spending is out of control. · We feel the unelected bureaucratic forth branch of government controls too much of our lives. · We are part of the “silent majority” who are ready to be silent no more. · We want to be instrumental in restoring America as the “shining city on a hill.” · We are patriots who want to leave a legacy of freedom to our posterity. · We believe in the virtue of the American Dream. If these statements resonate with you, read on…

Crucible of Freedom
Crucible of Freedom

Author: Eric Leif Davin

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-07-10

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 073914572X

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This book explores the relation between democracy and industrialization in United States history. Over the course of the 1930s, the political center almost disappeared as the Democratic New Deal became the litmus test of class, with blue collar workers providing its bedrock of support while white collar workers and those in the upper-income levels opposed it. By 1948 the class cleavage in American politics was as pronounced as in many of the Western European countries-such as France, Italy, Germany, or Britain-with which we usually associate class politics. Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America that existed before. They won the political rights of American citizenship which had been previously denied them. They democratized labor-capital relations and gained more economic security than they had ever known. They obtained more economic opportunity for them and their children than they had ever known and they created a respect for ethnic workers, which had not previously existed. In the process, class politics re-defined the political agenda of America as-for the first time in American history-the political universe polarized along class lines. Eric Leif Davin explores the meaning of the New Deal political mobilization by ordinary people by examining the changes it brought to the local, county, and state levels in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Pennsylvania as a whole.

Naming the Goddess
Naming the Goddess

Author: Trevor Greenfield

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2014-09-26

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1782794751

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Naming the Goddess is written by over eighty adherents and scholars of Goddess and Goddess Spirituality, and includes contributions from Selena Fox, Kathy Jones, Caroline Wise and Rachel Patterson. Part 1 is a series of critical essays focusing upon contemporary Goddess issues. Part 2 is a spiritual gazetteer featuring over seventy Goddesses.

Unlearning Liberty
Unlearning Liberty

Author: Greg Lukianoff

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1594037337

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For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America’s colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. Drawing on a decade of experience battling for freedom of speech on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff reveals how higher education fails to teach students to become critical thinkers: by stifling open debate, our campuses are supercharging ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and encouraging an unscholarly certainty about complex issues. Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day college student, from orientation to the end of freshman year. Through this lens, he describes startling violations of free speech rights: a student in Indiana punished for publicly reading a book, a student in Georgia expelled for a pro-environment collage he posted on Facebook, students at Yale banned from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on a T shirt, and students across the country corralled into tiny “free speech zones” when they wanted to express their views. But Lukianoff goes further, demonstrating how this culture of censorship is bleeding into the larger society. As he explores public controversies involving Juan Williams, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Larry Summers—even Dave Barry and Jon Stewart—Lukianoff paints a stark picture of our ability as a nation to discuss important issues rationally. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate illuminates how intolerance for dissent and debate on today’s campus threatens the freedom of every citizen and makes us all just a little bit dumber.

Woke Army
Woke Army

Author: Asra Q. Nomani

Publisher: Bombardier Books

Published: 2023-02-27

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1637580053

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From California to the West Bank, former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Q. Nomani spans the globe, investigating a hidden network of keyboard warriors who hide behind fake identities and pseudonymous Twitter and Facebook accounts. These digital trolls launch virulent attacks against Muslim reformers and others who challenge their divisive attempts to destroy American freedoms. In Woke Army, the author moves from being hunted by this network to being the hunter. The book uncovers the real identities of the network’s members, chronicles their secret operations, and reveals their impact on American public debate, from policing to education in our K–12 schools. In doing so, Nomani uncovers an unholy alliance between radical Muslims, who preach jihad against Western freedoms, and far left activists whose divisive ideology turns all of society’s issues into a race war. The shock troops of this dangerous “red-green alliance” work in tandem, using harassment, threats, and bullying to silence critics, and labeling those who speak out as “Islamophobic” or “racist.” A must-read for anyone who fears for America’s freedoms, Woke Army reveals what can happen when activism, radicalism, and the dark web collide.

The Costs of War
The Costs of War

Author: John Denson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1351484443

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The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the lifetime struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries; the hidden economic costs of inflation, debts, and taxes; and more generally the damages caused to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at large. The new edition is now available in paperback, with a number of new essays. It represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce the veils of myth and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the cost to liberty.Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become limited in scope and power. In the spirit of these theorems by Mises, the contributors to this volume consider the costs of war generally and assess specific corrosive effects of major American wars since the Revolution. The first section includes chapters on the theoretical and institutional dimensions of the relationship between war and society, including conscription, infringements on freedom, the military as an engine of social change, war and literature, and the right of citizens to bear arms. The second group includes reconsiderations of Lincoln and Churchill, an analysis of the anti-interventionist idea in American politics, a discussion of the meaning of the "just war," an assessment of how World War I changed the course of Western civilization, and finally two eyewitness accounts of the true horrors of actual combat by

A Gift of Freedom
A Gift of Freedom

Author: John Jos. Miller

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2022-03-22

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1594034044

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In the 1970s, John M. Olin, one of the country’s leading industrialists, decided to devote his fortune to saving American free enterprise. Over the next three decades, the John M. Olin Foundation funded the conservative movement as it emerged from the intellectual ghetto and occupied the halls of power. The foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars fostering what its longtime president William E. Simon called the “counterintelligentsia” to offset liberal dominance of university faculties and the mainstream media and to make conservatism a significant cultural force. Among the counterintellectuals the foundation identified and supported at key stages of their careers were Charles Murray during his early work on welfare reform, Allan Bloom as he wrote The Closing of the American Mind, and Francis Fukuyama as he was developing his “End of History” thesis. Using exclusive access to the John M. Olin Foundation’s leading personalities as well as its extensive archives, John J. Miller tells the story of an intriguing man and his unique philanthropic vision. He gives fascinating insights into the foundation’s role in helping the CIA fund anti-Communist organizations during the Cold War and its extensive help to Irving Kristol and others as they moved from left to right to found the neoconservative movement. He tells of the foundation’s early and critical role in building institutions such as the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, which served to transform conservative ideas into national policies. A Gift of Freedom shows how John M. Olin’s “venture capital fund for the conservative movement” helped develop one of the leading forces in American politics and culture.

Religion and Media in America
Religion and Media in America

Author: Anthony Hatcher

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2018-05-25

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1498514456

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Covering topics ranging from the Moral Monday movement to Christian films and performers, Religion and Media in America is a qualitative study of the ways in which religion has been woven into American popular and civic culture. This book explores how Christianity both adapts to and is affected by new media forms. Its six chapters address religious activism; government imposition of religiosity into secular culture; religious entertainment; Bible translations marketed as consumer goods; and how religious satire comes from both religious and secular sources. Recommended for scholars and students interested in media studies, film studies, religion, communication, American history, American studies, political science, and popular culture.