Letters to a Young Conservative (2010)
Letters to a Young Conservative
“This is a feeder school for Ivy League colleges and for places such as Stanford, the University of Chicago, and so on. While the students of these prep schools tend to be more open-minded and less jaded than those at elite colleges, there is evidence that the great liberal propaganda machine has already started to work on them. I saw that these teenagers are routinely assigned books that present a partial, tendentious, and even flatly wrong picture of America—and specifically of the American fo...unding. Since I’m on deadline to complete a book review for the Weekly Standard, I’ll limit myself to a couple of examples.
“The Constitution was a racist document,” one student informed me. “After all, it says that a black person is three-fifths of a human being.” When I asked the student his source he showed me his textbook, and there it was. But the charge is totally false. The notorious three-fifths clause of the Constitution reflects no denial of the equal worth of African Americans.MoreLess
“The Constitution was a racist document,” one student informed me. “After all, it says that a black person is three-fifths of a human being.” When I asked the student his source he showed me his textbook, and there it was. But the charge is totally false. The notorious three-fifths clause of the Constitution reflects no denial of the equal worth of African Americans.MoreLess
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