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							<title><![CDATA[Five Steps for Revitalizing Conservatism]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark T. Mitchell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s clear that the GOP is in disarray. The recent CPAC gathering only served to highlight that Republicans are groping for a winning strategy. The elephant in the room refuses to go away. Donald Trump remains a polarizing figure whose brash and crass demeanor retains a strange...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter and the Rhetoric of Revolution]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark T. Mitchell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In classical Greece, the sophists were practitioners of the art of rhetoric. They took pride in their ability to persuade audiences to embrace any position. They could, as one boasted, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'make the weaker argument appear the stronger.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Ancient sophists employed their rhetorical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Middle-Class America and the Spirit of Revolution]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark T. Mitchell</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis unleashed a wave of protests, ostensibly provoked by anger at systemic racial injustice'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and particularly by police brutality toward unarmed black men. Yet many of these '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'mostly peaceful'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' protests, as the media generally described...]]></description>
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