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How to raise an ideological warrior

From The Mises Institute, swan song of the Old Right: An excerpt from Murray Rothbard's The Betrayal of the American Right. A review of The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History by Donald T. Critchlow. From National Review, an article on scapegoating the So-Cons: They’re not what’s killing the GOP. The right kind of hand up: Here are six principles for a sensitive and conservative approach to social policy. A review of In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas by Theodore Dalrymple. Defining deviancy down: The conservative movement made hay for 40 years claiming that liberals were "morally depraved" — let's look at the record. More on The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman (and an interview). From Jewcy, a look at how to raise an ideological warrior: "I want my kid to grow up utterly intolerant of creationism". From TAP, an article on the problem with youth activism: The institutionalization of activism on college campuses is a key culprit in the absence of visible youth movements in this country. From The Texas Observer, here are the confessions of an ex-protester. Walter Russell Mead on how today's anti-Americans, anti-Semites, and anti-Zionists have embraced a set of images and beliefs that haunted the European imagination for hundreds of years.