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Are the Liberal Arts Elitist?

In Opinion by Michael Rae

We have interesting classifications of our institutions of higher learning. The Carnegie classification of major research universities distinguishes between R1 and R2 schools. The well-known U.S. News & World Report Rankings separate national universities from regional ones, and also from national liberal arts colleges. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute

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Will you help us champion global solutions for global problems?

In Opinion by Michael Rae

22 September 2023 Only determination and compromise can rescue a world that is becoming “unhinged” …. reform the multilateral system and come together for the common good. – UN Secretary-General at UNGA 78 As I am drafting this message, world leaders are addressing the opening “high level” session of the 78th UN Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article

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Pushing Back Against the New Deal in Real Time

In Opinion by Michael Rae

The American Institute of Economic Research has published an anthology of critics of the New Deal, New Deal Rebels,complete with more than 50 brief commentaries and excerpts. The book is edited by contemporary economic historian Amity Shlaes, herself a prominent New Deal critic, whose The Forgotten Man is perhaps the most comprehensive work memorializing the mistakes of that era. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute

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Climate and the UN, saving UNRWA, new Ukraine update

In Opinion by Michael Rae

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE UN The website Media Lens has a devastating recent analysis of our collective failure to adequately respond to climate change. It is entitled Climate Collapse – The Grim Silence Of Our Leaders (medialens.org, 14 September 2023). They begin: None of us has previously witnessed a barrage of extreme Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article

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Elisabeth Elliot and the Mystery of Divine Providence

In Opinion by Michael Rae

With over 24 books to her credit, renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Vaughn is out with her second volume on the life and work of Elisabeth Elliot, the noted Christian author, speaker, and philosopher who died in 2015 after a 10-year struggle with dementia. Continue Reading… Read more at The Acton Institute

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Foreign interference inquiry, sanctions and peacemaking, and an important Ukraine update

In Opinion by Michael Rae

FOREIGN INTERFERENCE – GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES PUBLIC INQUIRY On 7 September 2023 the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, Dominic LeBlanc, announced the establishment of a Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions. As the Minister himself noted: The announcement of this inquiry follows extensive consultations Visit the Rideau Institute for the complete article