| Leading off this week’s curation at RealClear American Civics is our latest 1776 Series essay, “The American Regime and Its Moral Ground.” The well-known teacher and thinker Hadley Arkes articulates and defends the enduring principles that undergird the American republic. Following the Founders and Lincoln in interpreting the Constitution through the lens of the Declaration of Independence, Arkes argues that the rights and obligations of a free people are rooted in a natural order that anyone can understand through using their mind. As he concludes, officeholders in a constitutional government should have good character and respect the rights of citizens, working to protect the property and lives of everyone living in this country. Matthew Mehan highlights Hillsdale College’s new 1776 Curriculum, which looks to give students a deep and abiding education in America's principles, traditions, and people. It will “help students grow into young men and women of character and intellect,” Mehan writes, and show them how to “become good, equal, and free Americans.” The curriculum will equip students with the tools think and “speak to the fundamental truth of equality and liberty” and live out the high calling of American citizenship each day. For more on this new curriculum, RealClear's John Hirschauer recently explored its resources in detail and featured explanations and guidance from Hillsdale’s Kathleen O’Toole, the Assistant Provost for K-12 Education. Eric Felten dives into the history of critical race theory, looking at the genesis of CRT in law schools in the mid-1980s. The movement was started by UCLA law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw and other academics – including Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas – in response to what they viewed as the myriad failures of the civil rights movement. Felten notes that CRT “is not just an academic approach but a “politically committed movement” that, in the words of Professor Cornel West, rejects “traditional civil rights discourse,” including the “ideals of integration, assimilation and color-blindness,” in favor of raising “race-consciousness.” Original Posts Hadley Arkes, RealClearPublicAffairs In the night he was elected President in November 2008, Barack Obama addressed a vast throng in Grant Park in my hometown... Michael DiMatteo, RealClearPublicAffairs Essential Reading Steven Kessler, National Association of Scholars The term “cancel culture” has hurtled into popular use as a way of identifying instances of social justice mobbing—essentially.... In the News John Hirschauer, RealClearEducation Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times Ari Blaff, National Review Jacob Jarvis, Newsweek Carrie Severino, RealClearPolitics Jim Harper, The Hill Matthew Mehan, RealClearPublicAffairs Clint Bolick, Washington Times Michael Munger, James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fred Lucas, RealClearHistory Richard Beeman, Museum of the American Revolution Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations Thomas Koenig, National Review Samuel Postell, Law & Liberty William Doherty, USA Today Samantha Hedges & Sam Merrick, Heterodox Out Loud “Critical Race Theory” is all the rage these days. Between February and June of 2021, Fox News used the term nearly 1300 times... Bob Woodson, Cara Candal, & Gerard Robinson, Learning Curve This week on “The Learning Curve,” co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with Robert Woodson, Sr., founder and president of the Woodson Center that supports Ed Ayers & Melody Barnes, Backstory This episode of Backstory recounts the turbulent history of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Listeners will hear about why and how... Chris Burkett & Jeff Sikkenga, American Idea What is the lasting influence of Washington's Farewell Address? Does Washington really advocate for an isolationist foreign Chris Flannery, American Story Isabella Beecher was outraged like many of her Boston neighbors by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law 1850. The new law... Larry Arnn, Hillsdale College Led by Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn, the course examines the major challenges posed by Progressivism to American... Carl Cannon's Great American Stories Presidents are often accused of employing "empty rhetoric," a charge directed at Republican presidents as well as Democrats, including the current occupant of the ... It's Friday, the day of the week when I reprise quotations intended to be uplifting or educational. Today's, which is ... Seventy-six years ago today, the USS Indianapolis, a 610-foot-long heavy cruiser, was leaving the Marianas on a course for Leyte Gulf in ... | 
