{"id":403455,"date":"2019-04-21T01:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dont-get-conned-by-the-neocons\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T01:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T00:34:05","slug":"dont-get-conned-by-the-neocons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dont-get-conned-by-the-neocons\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Get Conned by the Neocons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So, smart moms in two homeschool social-media groups of which I\u2019m a member are super-excited about Hillsdale College\u2019s free \u201cConstitution 101\u201d course. \u201cHillsdale\u2019s conservative, so it must be teaching Christian-centered history,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n

\u201cHillsdale doesn\u2019t accept grants from the federal government or participate in federal financial-aid or student-loan programs. How principled,\u201d they opine. \u201cRush Limbaugh and Mark Levine both endorse Hillsdale as being an \u2018authority on the Constitution\u2019, so it must be quality curriculum,\u201d they hope.<\/p>\n

Hey now, not so fast. Let\u2019s not take all these assumptions on face value.<\/p>\n

For years, I\u2019ve been receiving and reading Hillsdale\u2019s monthly mailed newsletter\u00a0Imprimus<\/em>, which highlights guest lectures, speeches by visiting professors, and articles by intellectuals associated with the college. It sometimes features valuable articles by modern thinkers I respect and offer up opinions that are not status quo. But not always.
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In fact, Hillsdale as a place of learning is overall a neocon institution. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, like history professor Brad Birzer, and his wife and history lecturer Dedra Birzer.<\/p>\n

Much has been written and discussed about\u00a0neoconservatism<\/a>. In short, they were ex-Trotskyites who abandoned the left decades ago, and they and their descendants have been pushing for foreign interventionism, open borders, and giving up on the culture war, all while claiming to be for \u201cFounding principles.\u201d These wolves in sheep\u2019s clothing pretend to be patriotic, yet undergird the very ideologies that are tearing America apart.<\/p>\n

Larry P….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So, smart moms in two homeschool social-media groups of which I\u2019m a member are super-excited about Hillsdale College\u2019s free \u201cConstitution 101\u201d course. \u201cHillsdale\u2019s conservative, so it must be teaching Christian-centered history,\u201d they say. \u201cHillsdale doesn\u2019t accept grants from the federal government or participate in federal financial-aid or student-loan programs. How principled,\u201d they opine. \u201cRush Limbaugh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}