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September 2, 2020 by Robert J. Avrech 1 Comment

The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789 by Edward J. Larson

“After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.

“Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.”

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July 1, 2020 by Robert J. Avrech Leave a Comment

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier

Our friend, Abigail Shrier, was scheduled to be the featured speaker at the 2020 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture. Unfortunately, the Chinese-Wuhan Virus forced us to cancel the annual event. But as soon as we can reschedule, Abigail is standing by as our speaker.

Abigail writes Op-Ed pieces for the Wall Street Journal which are notable for their ability to cut through the vapor of lies and misinformation that passes for elite culture and drill down to foundational truths.

For the past year or so Abigail has been writing and researching her book about the transgender movement, sweeping like prairie fire, through the world of adolescent girls. This new social gospel is spread through social media and preached by radical leftist activists in the public school systems, men and women who seek to erase biology, male and female, and destroy the nuclear family.

I urge everyone to read Abigail’s book. And if you have children in the public school system in California, be warned, your children are being indoctrinated by fanatic radicals cleverly using the smoke screen of anti-bullying programs for their destructive secular religion.

From the publisher:

Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.

But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.”

Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.

Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.

Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters.

A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.

Order here.

The watch is a Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso, designed in 1931, an Art Deco masterpiece.