By: David McCullough Historian The following is an abridges transcript of remarks delivered on February 15, 2005, in Phoenix, Arizona, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on the topic, AAmerican History and America's Future.@ Harry Truman once said the only new thing in the world is the history you don't know. Lord Bolingbroke, who…
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Man's Marxism
By: Michael Baumann This portion edited by: James Ricks With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, all of the secular word-wielders – the print journalists, the television anchormen, the college professors, the intellectuals, the politicians, and the public policy experts – rushed to explain why this miraculous event had happened and why none…
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Lay Your Hammer Down
By: Edwin J. Feulner Edwin J. Feulner is president of the Heritage Foundation. He has studied at the University of Edinburgh, the London School of Economics, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University and Regis University. He is the author of five books, including Intellectual Pilgrims and The March of Freedom, and…
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Jane Fonda's Second Coming
By: Cal Thomas We’ve all seen them: aging athletes, beyond their prime, trying to squeeze out one more flight, or one more season, but failing to bring back their glory days. That seems an appropriate analogy for the return of Jane Fonda to the political stage. Having made her first movie in many years (“Monster-in-Law”)…
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Hollywood Worldviews
By: Brian Godawa PREFACE I am a screenwriter. I’ve been at it for over twelve years, winning various screenwriting contest honors and script options along the way. I write stories that interest me, stories that move me, like the one I adapted for the feature film To End All Wars. What I have to say…
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Is Anyone Open to Persuasion?
By: Brian Godawa PREFACE I am a screenwriter. I’ve been at it for over twelve years, winning various screenwriting contest honors and script options along the way. I write stories that interest me, stories that move me, like the one I adapted for the feature film To End All Wars. What I have to say…
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Hollywood vs. America
By: Michael Medved “Emancipate Our Films from Morality!” What went wrong with the movie business in the late ‘60s had little to do with external influences and everything to do with altered attitudes in the industry itself. As a result, untangling the enigma of the evaporating audience involves answers that are both obvious and uncomfortable.…
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