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BOOK REVIEW – The Paradox of Freedom: A History of Black Slaveholders in America

November 20, 2025 Jeb Smith

I recently completed Larry Allen McCluney, Jr.’s book, The Paradox of Freedom: A History of Black Slaveholders in America. This rarely discussed subject deserves more attention, and I am glad McCluney is giving it the attention it needs. An Instructor of American History at Mississippi Delta Community College and an American Civil War Living Historian … Read more

Ivan Ilyin (1883-1954) as portrayed in 1921 by Mikhail Nesterov in the Russian Museum in St Petersburg

What to Do about the Evil in Our Midst?

October 7, 2022 Op-Ed

Ivan Ilyin’s “On Resistance to Evil by Force” (trans by K Benois) was first published in Berlin in 1925. The author makes many philosophical points, some of which depend on the divine origin of the New Testament, but I will cherry-pick for points that may help us figure out what to do about the evil in our midst right now.

GrokTalk! Saturday June 11th , 2011

September 26, 2018June 11, 2011 Steve MacDonald

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The Terrorist Next Door

September 23, 2025June 1, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Investigative reporter Erick Stakelbeck, host of the network program “Stakelbeck on Terror,” has written a book everyone needs to pay attention to. It’s called “The Terrorist Next Door, ‘How the government is deceiving you about the Islamist threat.”

Davis Freddoso Interview – Gangster Government

September 26, 2018May 23, 2011 Steve MacDonald

David Freddoso is a political reporter for The Washington Examiner and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Case Against Barack Obama; Previously he covered Capitol Hill for National Review Online and was a reporter for Human Events and the Evans-Novak Political Report. A graduate of Notre Dame and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives with his family in Washington, D.C.