Plus: A Defense of Our Founding Ideas
| | Good morning from Washington, one place where two writers are driving the “woke” conversation about “anti-racism” that threatens to go mainstream. Our Jarrett Stepman has what you should know. President Trump appears unflappable as a shooting interrupts his briefing, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, “America on Trial” author Robert Reilly defends the Founding Fathers. Plus: a top homeland security official denounces liberal pols and the media over urban violence; why suspending the payroll tax isn’t the way to go; and sex ed that should horrify parents. On this date in 1965, the mostly black Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles explodes into five days of riots after two white police officers scuffle with a suspected drunk driver who is black. | |
| | Commentary | | 3 Key Concepts That Woke ‘Anti-Racists’ Believe | | | By Jarrett Stepman
Robin DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility,” and Ibram X. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” are shaping the modern discussion over “wokeness” and the ideas that are becoming politically mainstream, at least on the American left. | | More |
Analysis | | A Defense of Our Founding Ideas | | | By Jarrett Stepman
Robert R. Reilly, author of "America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding,” discusses the deeper origins of the American Revolution—rooted in Western thought, philosophy, and religion—and explains why the nation’s survival depends on embracing those ideas. | | More |
Commentary | | The Heritage Foundation Adds 2 Leading Academics as Visiting Fellows | | | By Douglas Blair
“Our new visiting scholars will continue to forge successes for American values by highlighting the importance of individual sovereignty, equal opportunity, limited constitutional government, and economic freedom,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Angela Sailor. | | More |
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