Rather than abandoning their passion for education, some of these teachers are building alternatives to school outside of the dominant system that nurture authentic teaching and learning relationships.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/20/teachers-quit-create-schooling-alternatives/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/20/teachers-quit-create-schooling-alternatives/
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Teachers Who Quit to Create Schooling Alternatives
Some public school teachers wonder if conventional schooling may be the root of their discontent, not education itself.
It was faith in planning, not inherent greatness, personal or otherwise, that made the Great Society what it was.
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/06/22/great-society-lesson-american-central-planning/
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/06/22/great-society-lesson-american-central-planning/
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The Great Society: A Lesson in American Central Planning
Most people associate the Great Society initiative with Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Deliberately withholding Shakespeare from young minds is a form of aesthetic starvation, but depriving them of Orwell is a moral crime.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/25/educational-disappearing-great-writers-schools/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/25/educational-disappearing-great-writers-schools/
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Educational Earthquake: 'Disappearing' the Great Writers from Schools
The School Board in the Windsor, Ont., area is supplanting its grade 11 literature curriculum, which up to now has featured great writers of the western canon such as Shakespeare and George Orwell, with a year-long program of Indigenous writers.
"You are being guided along a path that is leading you towards becoming someone who is capable of committing dreadful acts, and this transformation is occurring gradually, one tiny step at a time." -Michael O'Fallon
https://sovereignnations.com/2024/05/02/the-10-stages-that-lead-to-genocide-public-occurrences-ep-120/
https://sovereignnations.com/2024/05/02/the-10-stages-that-lead-to-genocide-public-occurrences-ep-120/
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The 10 Stages That Lead to Genocide | Public Occurrences, Ep. 120
America is currently immersed in a troubling wave of animosity that spans various ethnicities, religions, and sexual identities.
Those who have read Nineteen Eighty-Four will remember that Julia is proven wrong in the end—as it turns out, they can get inside you. Today the Chinese Communist Party is attempting the same feat.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/21/art-mind-control/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/21/art-mind-control/
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The Art of Mind Control
Brainwashing has always been associated with the Communist Party, but in the days of Mao Zedong it was a relatively crude affair. Now it is far more sophisticated.
"I shudder to think what would have become of us if we hadn’t ditched socialism!"
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/27/ditching-socialism-new-world-lesson-americans/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/27/ditching-socialism-new-world-lesson-americans/
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Ditching Socialism in the New World: A Lesson for 21st-Century Americans
A timely paraphrase of Governor William Bradford's account of the Pilgrims in the Plymouth Settlement.
"We are not a Thought Police," she maintained, "but we do issue guidelines, and when we see violations of our guidelines, we intervene." Puzzle over that one, if you will.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/25/thought-police-come-norway/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/11/25/thought-police-come-norway/
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The 'Thought Police' Come to Norway
As commentator Nina Hjerpset-Østlie put it, it is now illegal "to burn your own books" in Norway.
If you want to have a private discussion about your political views, your religion, troubles at work, intellectual property, your thoughts on immigration, corruption, or mention any medical issues you have, or affairs anyone you know has had, don’t do it in an electric car.
https://sovereignnations.com/2024/05/03/digital-car-personal-data-sold/
https://sovereignnations.com/2024/05/03/digital-car-personal-data-sold/
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When You Sit in a “Digital Car” You Consent to Being Recorded and Personal Data Sold
The Subaru privacy policy allows them to record your conversations and your face and sell that data to the highest bidder.
If you are a researcher, why conduct a painstaking statistical analysis that takes all relevant factors into account, when you can make your job easier and reduce your workload by deliberately omitting relevant factors?
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/07/13/unbiased-research-race-taboo-academia/
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/07/13/unbiased-research-race-taboo-academia/
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Unbiased Research on Race Becoming Taboo in Academia
It is now dangerous for an academic to conduct or even discuss research that shows an absence of racial bias in the criminal justice system.
Most modern critics of capitalism don't know what it is, or simply choose to ignore the data.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/12/anti-capitalism-trendy-wrong/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/12/anti-capitalism-trendy-wrong/
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Anti-Capitalism: Trendy But Wrong
You can’t escape it; capitalism has a bad rap.
Policy should, in the end, be based on objective reality, not on the back of a lavishly-funded and elaborate international campaigns of crafty and lucrative falsehoods promoted by the political, financial, corporate, bureaucratic and media establishments.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/12/principled-inaction-climate-change-extremism/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/12/principled-inaction-climate-change-extremism/
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Principled Inaction in the Face of Climate Change Extremism
It takes a lot of courage to do nothing.
The Spanish-American War was a giant step into a dramatic new world.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/13/spanish-american-war-liberation-oppression/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/13/spanish-american-war-liberation-oppression/
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The Spanish-American War: When Liberation Became Oppression
Prior to the Spanish-American War, Americans had followed George Washington’s admonition to avoid foreign entanglements.
In America, the Republic is fast becoming a fading memory, as federal bureaucrats and global planners divert more and more power to the center. So the struggle continues, as it must.
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/06/24/rise-fall-renaissance-classical-liberalism/
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/06/24/rise-fall-renaissance-classical-liberalism/
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The Rise, Fall, and Renaissance of Classical Liberalism
Classical liberalism—or simply liberalism, as it was called until around the turn of the century—is the signature political philosophy of Western civilization.
So long as parties like Labour pander to their middle-class, identitarian activists and ignore the interests of the genuinely disadvantaged, they’ll continue to rack up loss after loss. Get woke, go broke.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/16/britains-labour-party-woke-broke/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/16/britains-labour-party-woke-broke/
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Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke
The Conservatives’ resounding victory in the British General Election won’t come as a surprise to anyone who spent time canvassing in the ‘Red Wall.’ That’s the name given to a thick wedge of seats in the Midlands and North of England, some of which have…
"The progressive and fluid movement that we know as social justice is seeking total domination." -Josh Buice
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/07/17/reverends-rappers-rich-athletes-new-wave-social-justice-warriors/
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/07/17/reverends-rappers-rich-athletes-new-wave-social-justice-warriors/
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Reverends, Rappers, and Rich Athletes: The New Wave of Social Justice Warriors
As America has drifted further away from Jesus, the leaders of social movements have become more and more secular.
"Black people cannot afford to remain fodder for the liberal agenda. With that in mind, we should not be a one-party people in a two-party system."
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/17/who-racists/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/17/who-racists/
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Who Are the Racists?
Former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said that racism in America is “foundational” and that people of color were under “mortal threat” from the “white supremacist in the White House.”
"Our ancestors were builders and pioneers and mostly fearless. We are regulators, auditors, bureaucrats, adjudicators, censors, critics, plaintiffs, defendants, social media junkies and thin-skinned scolds."
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/17/previous-generations-giants-become-small/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/17/previous-generations-giants-become-small/
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Members Of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants — When Did We Become So Small?
Does anyone believe that contemporary Americans could build another transcontinental railroad in six years?
The cancel artists reveal at least as much about themselves as the historical figures they seek to erase. They display a deeply judgmental impulse by enforcing on people of centuries past, moral standards that we hardly agreed on five minutes ago.
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/06/25/you-cant-learn-from-a-history-thats-been-deleted/
https://sovereignnations.com/2020/06/25/you-cant-learn-from-a-history-thats-been-deleted/
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You Can't Learn From a History That's Been Deleted
The “memory hole” is one of the most haunting images in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
It is only when Christians recover a full-orbed, liberty-loving faith that we can expect manumission from the slavery of secularism under which we presently languish.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/20/post-constantine-pre-christian-world/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/20/post-constantine-pre-christian-world/
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Our Post-Constantinian, Pre-Christian World
An important but overlooked essay on Christianity and culture is Massey H. Shepherd's "Before and After Constantine."
Here is the subtle but destructive twist to destroy the concept of objective truth: radical subjectivism.
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/23/after-light-darkness-michael-ofallon-sovereign-nations-conference/
https://sovereignnations.com/2019/12/23/after-light-darkness-michael-ofallon-sovereign-nations-conference/
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After Light, Darkness: Michael O'Fallon’s Opening Presentation at the Sovereign Nations Conference
The opening presentation from the 2019 Sovereign Nations Conference, Speaking Truth to Social Justice, held in London, England. Michael O'Fallon discusses the history and significance of the latin phrase "post tennebras lux", and its implications in modern…