Phi Beta Cons

Commencements: More Collectivist, Defeatist Blather

Glance over the Top 10 Liberal Commencement Speakers of 2006 as ranked by The Young America’s Foundation. There’s Marxist Gustavo Esteva telling students at the University of Vermont in the post 9/11 era they must embrace “those who are radically different” (no distinction, of course, between the “different” and terrorists); author of House of War John S. Carroll, who has written that “America’s mid-twentieth century initiation into world power was as much in the state of mortal sin as its birth in slavery had been”; and so on and so forth.

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