“Sustainability” is a key idea on college campuses in the United States and the rest of the Western world. To many, sustainability is just a new name for environmentalism. But the word has come to mean something much larger: an ideology that demands new limits on economic, political, and intellectual freedom as the price that must be paid to ensure the welfare of future generations. This report is the first in-depth critical examination of the sustainability movement in higher education. The movement, of course, extends well beyond the college campus. But the college campus is where the movement gets its voice of authority, and where it molds the views and commands the attention of young people. Hank Campbell , president, American Council on Science and Health Sustainability has become a catch-all term for people and companies trying to attach an ethical halo to their self-identification. The National Academy of Scholars has punctured this mythology and shows how, rather than defending the environment, the sustainability movement primarily results in higher costs—costs that will be borne by those least likely to be able to afford it, but who are duped into thinking they are making a difference. Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Cambridge, MA Sustainability is a must-read for all truth-seeking and freedom-loving students. If our higher educational institutions are now so willingly corrupted with anti-scientific and pseudo-religious agendas of "cosmic" justices, I can only wish for more determined courage for all to stand up and say "no more." This NAS report will help provide the necessary intellectual ammunition to do so. David Legates, Professor of Climatology, University of Delaware "The sustainability movement is adversely changing academia through the degradation of intellectual freedom, the corrosion of institutional integrity, and the transition from a “diversity” of thought into a “university” of singular beliefs. Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism shines a light on the impact the environmental movement has had on higher education. It is an eye- opener and definitely worth the read."

Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism

Science & Math

Wood, Peter W.

Peterson, Rachelle

Earth Sciences

Polaris Books

Why the Common Core is a Bad Idea (Encounter Broadsides)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Encounter Books

Why Conservatives Should Stop Opposing the Common Core (Common Core: Yea) by Sol Stern In the past few decades as progressives gained influence in universities and schools of education the idea of a coherent, content-rich curriculum has been erased from America’s classrooms. Now, for all its faults, the Common Core State Standards represent the best opportunity we have to restore that structure in our schools. In this Broadside, Sol Stern shows how both sides of the education spectrum have misrepresented the Common Core. The left regards the standards as a threat to their ideological hegemony, while conservative pundits lack a true understanding of what they actually provide. Americans should see the Common Core as an opening to restore academic content to the nation’s schools and reverse the influence of educational progressivism in our classrooms. Why the Common Core Is a Bad Idea (Common Core: Nay) by Peter W. Wood The latest effort to fix America’s schools has backfired. In 2007, an elite group of would-be reformers devised a brilliant political strategy to transform education without ever facing public scrutiny. Their bold strategy, which became the Common Core State Standards, was astonishingly successful for a while. Then the American public took notice. In this Broadside, Peter W. Wood explains how the Common Core actually lowers standards while pretending to raise them and chokes off local control of our schools in favor of domination by the federal government and private groups. Bankrolled by the Gates Foundation, favored by political elites, and supported by true believers on both sides of the political spectrum, the Common Core once appeared unstoppable. But it can be stopped, and this book shows us how.

Common Core: Yea & Nay (Encounter Broadside)

Stern, Sol

America’s traditional values of liberty and equality have recently been overshadowed by a new ideal: diversity. This ideal claims that group differences matter more than commonalities, personal freedom, and individual rights. In Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, Wood told the story of how this hitchhiker on the Constitution has gained popularity since the 1970s. Diversity Rules covers what happened after Justice Sandra Day O’Connor bestowed the Supreme Court’s kiss of legitimacy on diversity in 2003. O’Connor opened the door to the promotion of identity politics, open borders, global citizenship, and the Green New Deal. More than a legal principle, diversity is a cultural edict that attempts to tell us who we are and how we should live.

Diversity Rules

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project

When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The Times set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture, and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African Americans that followed. A controversy erupted, with historians pushing back against what they say is a false narrative conjured out of racial grievance. This book sums up what the critics have said and argues that the proper starting point for the American story is 1620, with the signing of the Mayflower Compact aboard ship before the Pilgrims set foot in the Massachusetts wilderness. A nation as complex as ours, of course, has many starting points, most notably the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the quintessential ideas of American self-government and ordered liberty grew from the deliberate actions of the Mayflower immigrants in 1620. Schools across the country have already adopted the Times' radical revision of history as part of their curricula. The stakes are high. Should children be taught that our nation is a four-hundred-year-old system of racist oppression? Or should they learn that what has always made America exceptional is our pursuit of liberty and justice for all?

History

Americas

Product Description 
Anger now dominates American politics. It wasn’t always so. “Happy Days Are Here Again” was FDR’s campaign song in 1932. By contrast, candidate Kamala Harris’s 2020 campaign song was Mary J. Blige’s “Work That” (“Let ‘em get mad / They gonna hate anyway”). Both the left and right now summon anger as the main way to motivate their supporters. Post-election, both sides became even more indignant. The left accuses the right of “insurrection.” The right accuses the left of fraud. This is a book about how we got here―about how America changed from a nation that could be roused to anger but preferred self-control, to a nation permanently dialed to eleven. Peter W. Wood, an anthropologist, has rewritten his 2007 book, A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America, which predicted the new era of political wrath. In his new book, he explains how American culture beginning in the 1950s made a performance art out of anger; how and why we brought anger into our music, movies, and personal lives; and how, having step by step relinquished our old inhibitions on feeling and expressing anger, we turned anger into a way of wielding political power. But the “angri-culture,” as he calls it, doesn’t promise happy days again. It promises revenge. And a crisis that could destroy our republic. 
 Review 
“What can you do when your rulers choose as their lifestyle wrathful hate of you, apart from any actual grievance? Peter Wood shows how, though countering them with equally forceful wrath is essential for survival, it may be possible to wield that wrath not wholly divorced from reason about good and evil. This deeply thought-out reflection by a master scholar offers intellectual and moral guidance to Americans who hope that resisting our oligarchy’s campaigns on our way of life will not lead to civil war.” ―Angelo M. Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University“This is a book that engages with anger and wrath but hardly celebrates it. Rather, Peter Wood's newest book reminds us of Aristotle’s counsel in his Ethics that we should strive to be the person who ‘is angry at the right things and toward the right people, and also in the right way.’ Woods is an anthropologist who understands the social forces involved in the kind of anger many of us are feeling right now as our social institutions are attacked and our freedoms threatened. Engaging and accessible to all readers, this book reassures us that although we may have the ‘right’ to be angry, we need to direct our anger in positive and life-affirming ways to confront the dark forces determined to destroy everything that is good and true and beautiful in this country.” ―Anne Hendershott, professor of sociology and director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life, Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH “Beware offending the honor of a Greek warrior, especially if his mother is a goddess. And beware angering the once-stolid American middle class. With the cool vision of a social scientist, Peter Wood warns us that the boiling cauldron of rage at the center of twenty-first-century American politics is only too likely to overflow. The book is essential: Read, learn, and ponder.” ―Rusty Reno, editor of First Things “Peter Wood is becoming our foremost ‘angerologist.’ But his advice about how to channel the ‘wrath’ of traditional Americans over the hijacking and destruction of their culture is quite different from ‘anger management.’ Wood shows why conservatives are justifiably seething at the frequent hysterics of the even angrier left―but, more importantly, how they can focus and hone their anger to restore America. An insightful, timely, and splendidly written call to arms.” ―Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of The Dying CitizenBuilding on his previous book, A Bee in the Mouth, Peter Wood has penned a sober, and sobering, assessment of modern America’s decline from anger into wrath, and given us

Wrath: America Enraged

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Peter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times’ 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of American self-government were enshrined in the Mayflower Compact in 1620.\n"1620 is a dispassionate, clear reminder that the best in America’s past is still America’s best future." —Amity Shlaes, chair, Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation\n"Peter Wood’s pushback against the 1619 Project is at once sharp, illuminating, entertaining, and profound." —Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center 
When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The Times set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture, and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African Americans that followed. A controversy erupted, with historians pushing back against what they say is a false narrative conjured out of racial grievance.\nThis book sums up what the critics have said and argues that the proper starting point for the American story is 1620, with the signing of the Mayflower Compact aboard ship before the Pilgrims set foot in the Massachusetts wilderness. A nation as complex as ours, of course, has many starting points, most notably the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the quintessential ideas of American self-government and ordered liberty grew from the deliberate actions of the Mayflower immigrants in 1620.\nSchools across the country have already adopted the Times’ radical revision of history as part of their curricula. The stakes are high. Should children be taught that our nation is a four-hundred-year-old system of racist oppression? Or should they learn that what has always made America exceptional is our pursuit of liberty and justice for all?

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Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism

Why the Common Core is a Bad Idea (Encounter Broadsides)

Common Core: Yea & Nay (Encounter Broadside)

Diversity Rules

1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project

Wrath: America Enraged

1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project