Monthly Archives: July 2023

The First Ladies of Country Music: Listening to Patsy, Tammy, Loretta, and Dolly

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Luke Ford

Scott Yenor writes: * Pop music both expresses and shapes popular values. Anyone listening to the radio in the 1960s and ’70s received a pretty comprehensive commentary about men, women, and all that might pass between them. And while much … Continue reading →

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CROB: The Affirmative Action Regime How diversity derailed the Constitution

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Luke Ford

Jesse Merriam writes: * racial diversity makes us so divided that we need the government to be involved in managing our most intimate affairs and teaching us how “to live together and unite in common purpose.” No one asked why … Continue reading →

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CROB: Ungovernable France: A divided country lurches toward nationalism

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Luke Ford

Christopher Caldwell writes: A number of things are converging to make French people decidedly uneasy about immigration. Africa is going to double in population in the next generation, to 2.5 billion. That’s about a billion more people than the continent … Continue reading →

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CROB: Mass immigration’s self-destructive effects

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Luke Ford

From the Claremont Review of Books: * Garett Jones has written a scandalous book. The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left reviews a generation of social science research on … Continue reading →

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