Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Sergio Martinez

“In the mid-20th century, schools in communist countries were tools of the state. History lessons became hagiographies of the Soviet Union. Math examples were drawn from military production. Even literature bowed to Marxist dogma. But what did all this ideological schooling do to the people who lived through it? Two new studies — one from Finland, the other from Poland — suggest the answer: indoctrination works. Not by making people less intelligent, but by shaping their values, ambitions, and sense of agency. Decades later, it still haunts their lives.” (07/18/25)

https://fee.org/articles/the-long-shadow-of-communist-indoctrination/

Source: Fox News
by Rob Schneider

“Respectfully, Steven Colbert has been doing nothing but wafer-thinly disguised Democratic propaganda talking points for the last eight years plus. While I completely support Mr. Colbert’s freedom of speech, his utter disdain for half of America and every swing state, greatly diminished his audience potential. I also respect Colbert’s direct criticism of his employer, CBS/Paramount and his opinion that they caved to President Trump when they settled their lawsuit against the sitting president. That took guts, I will give him that. But Colbert, like ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel, excluded conservatives completely from his show and limited (prevented) his audience from hearing opposing viewpoints.” (07/19/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rob-schneider-colbert-gets-crash-course-what-freedom-speech-really-means

Source: The Dispatch
by Joseph Loconte

“In the years leading up to the American Revolution, colonial leaders enlisted several authoritative sources in their complaints against King George and the British Parliament: the Bible, the English constitution, and Enlightenment philosopher John Locke. In fact, it is not too much to say that Locke’s political outlook framed nearly all of the core arguments for American independence. … Colonial assumptions about natural rights, human equality, religious liberty, government by consent, the right of revolution: Each drew heavily from Locke’s writings, which were considered mandatory reading for educated Americans.” (07/18/25)

https://thedispatch.com/next-250/john-locke-revolution-ideals-government/

Source: Washington Post
by Eduardo Porter

“On the face of it, President Donald Trump’s all-out attack on world trade makes no sense. The United States was the main architect of the liberal trading order built after World War II, which ultimately brought about the globalized economy Trump is now trying to dismantle. And it benefited handsomely from this order, which ensured America’s economic preeminence over the ensuing 75 years. But Trump’s hostility toward global commerce is not a psychological quirk. Americans have exhibited an ambivalence about trade, their support for it ebbing and flowing over the years. This is inspired by a powerful fear of American decline. Though it has proved to be largely misplaced, the fear lives on, stoking demand for barriers to protect the nation from the enemy outside.” (07/18/25)

https://archive.is/Bazpa