Jeff Minick

Latest by Jeff Minick in Chronicles

• Society & Culture

  October 2019

  Hope in Little Platoons

  For 26 years, I taught hundreds of home-educated students, including my own children. My checkered teaching career also includes a semester in a university, two years at a prison, and two years in a public high school. During my last 15 years of that teaching, I conducted seminars for homeschoolers in Asheville, North Carolina, offering instruction in literature, composition, history, and Latin.

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• Society & Culture

  April 2019

  Happy Warriors

  For decades, conservative commentators and writers have told anyone who would listen that America is going to hell in a handbag. James Burnham’s Suicide of the West, John Derbyshire’s We Are Doomed, Pat Buchanan’s Suicide of a Superpower, Mark Steyn’s After America, and thousands of other books and articles have revealed the damage done to our culture and our republic by the left.

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• Society & Culture

  August 2018

  In Praise of Cultural Appropriation

  Recently I read of a 67-year-old woman who wanted to run in a marathon. She had never run for exercise in her life, but her desire and passion led her to put on a pair of sneakers, leave the house, and walk a mile.

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• Society & Culture

  December 2017

  The Pronouns of Bedlam

  Jordan Peterson and others like him understand in their bones one great truth: Language matters. The names by which we call people, places, and things are vital both to our perceptions of reality and to reality itself.

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• Correspondence

  January 2017

  Blood From a Stone: Observations of a Serf

  Like most conservatives, I believe that the federal government is out of control in its spending and its regulations. Like most conservatives, I believe the chief concerns of that government to be the defense of the United States, international negotiations, and certain interior measures regarding interstate trade and travel.

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Latest by Jeff Minick in ITO

• Culture

  September 23, 2020

  Getting Rid of Critical Race Theory Once and for All

  As corporations, governments, and schools indoctrinate their employees and students with critical race theory, it is time to ask the instructors some tough questions.

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• Culture

  September 22, 2020

  The War of All Men Against All Men

  The ideas of postmodernism have throughly saturated our culture. So the question that remains is will America descend into civil war as a result of the loss of civility?

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• Politics

  September 21, 2020

  The Military's Secret to Fighting COVID-19

  The astounding COVID-19 death statistics in the United States' armed forces reveals quite a lot about the disease, and how politicians and the media have treated Americans.

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• Culture

  September 18, 2020

  Finding Hope in America

  The example of a pair of coffee shop owners in Yorktown should inspire every American in how they can face down the pandemic and our current situation of unrest.

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• Culture

  September 16, 2020

  Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?

  It seems that everyday we see news showing Americans who have all but lost their grip on reality, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight for this phenomenon.

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